Tear down, burn up
Thursday evening we has another showing. Turned out that we tied for first place in the competition. But before we found that out, we arranged to allow people to get another chance to see it. Several faculty came.
After it was over, we caught the birds and started tearing down. We got the entry room dissassembled and put the doors back on the lounge and shut them.
Friday we pretty much took it all apart. Ended up with a big pile of stuff in the middle of the floor. Cardboard, pallets, lots of bamboo branches, pieces of pallets, large logs, wooden crates, branches etc.
Saturday we loaded it all on two trucks and filled Bubbles's minivan and took it all over to Bubbles's sister's house and piled it in the field. We worked on Bubbles's sister's house until 7 and then went out and lit the fire. We lit it in several places, and in about a minute the flames were 20 or 30 feet high. The bamboo branches and leaves burned very well. It is amazing that we didn't light the lounge on fire, what with the candles and all. We lit two shirts on fire, but not the lounge (Bubbles and Igloo both walked into candles, burning holes in shirts they had borrowed from Slope)
After the fire had burned down a while and more people had showed up, we roasted marshmellows and stood around and talked. Some people sang Christmas hymns from time to time. I tried to resist the urge to jump over the fire.
I think the evening was a success.
posted by abu @ 10:58 PM
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2 Comments:
wow, the pictures are amazing. did the other people do stuff that cool?
Well, of what I saw, ours was way better than the others. 1A, whom we tied with, I didn't see. But from what I heard, it was pretty good, but it was something we could have thrown together in a coulple nights. No one is really too uptight about not wining totally. It is somewhat dissappointing, and not as helpful financially, but we know it was amazing, and most of the people going through were blown away. And I see it as partly a political thing, because if we always win with such amazing things, no one else will even try.
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