I was in a class dedicated to the art of making little intricate paper boats and planes and such. We were only about a month into the class, but had already gotten quite far. The class took place in a little inlet, and I had a little station where I'd swim back to to work on my creations. When I was ready to test them I'd swim back out and let them do their best.
I had a calender that showed me all of the tests and projects that were coming up in the class. We'd apparently just come back from a break, and the professor deleted all my old projects from the calender to make things easier. I realized that this just hid the actual projects though; I could still retrieve my models. Apparently I was supposed to collaborate with someone else in the class, whose assignments were also on this calender; they were a week ahead of me.
I was playing with a long sailing ship I'd made which had many sails along it's whole length. There were something like 5 main sails and then quite a few smaller supporting sails. It was quite speedy; when I turned it up to it's highest safe speed setting, 7, it's prow raised a little out of the water and it left quite the wake. I feared that if I turned the speed up any more it'd tip.
We held a little impromptu race involving my ship and someone else's earlier model. The other model was smaller, without as many sails, but it was also pretty fast. During the race, however, it kept tipping over, and so my boat won.
We could also make models which could fly; At one point I made a tiny little bird which would flutter around me, land on me for a bit and then fly off again. Since it was so small, I was surprised that it had lasted so long; it could shift in the breeze, but didn't really have any wings to speak of. Eventually it disappeared; I figured it fell into the water.
Posted by Trevor Savage at November 8, 2006 12:10 PM | TrackBack