Around the World in Seven Weeks [Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin and Ben were in Portalocity waiting for the class with enough iced capps for everyone to enjoy while listening to the briefing. Ben was working his way through a box of Timbits, but those were just for him. Sorry.

"Today we're heading to Calgary, Alberta, Canada," Anakin said, pointing out the location on the map. "In the summer: I know this might be a concern to those of you who think Canada is constantly covered in snow."

Like Ben had been until they'd started doing research. Cough. "Calgary hosted the winter Olympics several decades ago," he said, "which is this totally astral sporting event that comes around every four years. Calgary's also home to several First Nations tribes in the area, including the Siksika, Stoney and Tsuu T'ina." Ben kind of destroyed the pronunciation of that last tribe.

"Explore Calgary, have fun with the activities and we'll meet you at the check-in point," Anakin concluded.

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Detour: Slide or Ride

[sith_happened]

You get to pretend to be Olympic athletes!

In Slide, you have to complete the Olympic course on a luge at speeds up to 40 miles per hour, where you need to complete the course in 34 seconds or less. If you fail, you have to keep trying until you hit the target time.

In Ride, use a mountain bike to complete the Olympic slalom course in three minutes or less. If you fail to finish in the required time, you must keep trying to complete the time to receive the next clue.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[theoplustwo.livejournal.com]

Theo decided to slide. He sat down on the luge and looked around, trying to figure out how to get this thing to go. It didn't take much of a push before he was hurtling down and actually biting his lip and holding his breath because it seemed like a lot faster than it was.

When he got to the end, he found he'd made it in just under 34 seconds which meant he could move on. That had been kind of fun though.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[failsatspirit]

Korra got down the slide with plenty of time to spare, but that didn't really help when you'd spent most of the class chatting.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Ice or no ice?

Yeah, Karina was going to take the one she was actually good at which meant the luge.

She took a second to glance over the course before getting on the luge and pushing off.

It totally wasn't a surprise to her that she made it with time to spare on the first go around.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[haslayers.livejournal.com]

The luge thing sounded way easier, so that was what Cordelia decided to do.

Apologies to the rest of the country that she was a really good screamer who thank god only needed to do this once.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[notyetplatypus.livejournal.com]

Chaz felt very, very sad that he did the luge course in under 34 seconds on the first try. It completely made up for the previous task and the bruises from it.

Re: Detour: Slide or Ride

[spin_kick_snap]

Like most of her classmates, Kathy was going for the luge. She took an extra few seconds to calculate angles and the like in her head, and then flung herself onto the ice.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"