Around The World in Sixteen Challenges, Thursday

[saddeserthermit]

After gathering up and stepping through the portal, the class would find itself on a large and exceptionally busy bridge, crowded with people, kiosks, vendors, and painters.

"Welcome," said Obi-Wan, "to Charles Bridge, one of Prague's most famous bridges. Your journey will begin here today."

"We're in the Czech Republic--" stop pronouncing the "z", Anakin, "--in Eastern Europe. This will be our last stop in the European continent this semester."

"Though not our last stop on the Eurasian continent," said Obi-Wan, who thought he was funny, yes. "You will begin today's course by engaging in the local practice of... well, painting people on bridges."

There wasn't a good local word for it that he could pronounce.

Too bad Threepio wasn't around to provide translation! "After that, you will pair up for an easy navigational exercise," Anakin said, "before heading out of the city for your final task."

"But we will let that be a surprise," Obi-Wan finished, smiling. (He should probably not be smiling.)

"You love our surprises," Anakin added, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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Charles Bridge

[saddeserthermit]

"You must make and sell at least three paintings of local tourists until you are allowed to move on."

Your teachers are being kind and not setting any prices, so you can charge as little as you like, but you better grab some canvases and get to work. Those tourists look impatient.

Re: Charles Bridge

[good_for_six]

Isabela's drawings weren't quite on the level of stick figures, but that was about all you could say for them.

'Luckily', she managed to find three customers who were paying more attention to her cleavage than her drawings. They also were paying more attention to her cleavage than their wallets, and she didn't feel one iota of shame about lightening their pockets.

Re: Charles Bridge

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura had no trouble making portraits. Jock of all trades and all that.

Selling them though? A bit difficult without threatening bodily harm upon her customers. So that might have taken a while.

Re: Charles Bridge

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Let's be perfectly clear, the only reason Eggsy managed to sell any of his awful paintings (despite being practically free) was due to flirting with the tourists.

He also ended up with several numbers in the process.

Re: Charles Bridge

[yogurtvore]

Blue was kind of artistic, but she would not have described herself as a portraitist by any stretch of the imagination. She was kind of astonished by how quickly she was able to sell three paintings. Maybe they had been distracted by her vest, which was made of the pull tabs from soda cans?

Re: Charles Bridge

[notamascot]

Apparently the combination of terrible paintings and utter lack of tact did not make for a quick sale. At all.