Thursday, March 03, 2005

An Economic Class

Can you believe it!? Something happened in school! I thought I'd never write here again, but well, enjoy this entry because it could well be the last one. Anyway, everything happened during Economics class, and I'm glad to say it was more than just one thing. Ah, today was a good day...

The first thing you need to know is that according to Irene and Marcella, Mr. Rugg is like a big 5th grader (a really big one, mind). That's because of some un-teacher-like things he does (don't ask). Well, that point was proven when we started to talk about Disney World (hey, it was in the book!). Mr. Rugg told us in a very upbeat mood that Mickey and Minnie live in Disney world, and that everytime he went he saw them, so that could only mean that they lived in the castle. I wish I could still believe in such things... oh, and Tinkerbell also lives there, says Daniel the expert.

Also, during Economics class we've got the Sound Effect of the Day, brought to you by Le Tiny. Yesterday he showed us how tired he was while playing basketball by inhaling really deeply and making this weird drowning noise. We all cracked up, including Mr. Rugg. As if that wasn't enough, today we were talking about what would happen if suddenly all the prices in the stores went down, and El Enano enriched us with knowledge by making another sound effect. This one tried to resemble a bunch of people running into a mall (something like "ssshhhwwaaaa"). Nice, Tiny, NIIIICE!!! He's not good at anything, but now that he's discovered this newfound talent, he might actually have something to look forward to in his future... (only joking, Tiny.)

Then an art debate started... Mr. Rugg finally said that when you painted a painting, that was art. When you designed a watch, that was art. When you built a computer, that was art. When you designed a car, that was art... and then the room went quiet, and Rod, to the surprise of everyone, said, "that's art, dude." And that was the most hilarious thing that happened. He said it with this high surfer's voice... it caught everyone by surprise, and even Rugg had to laugh for a full minute. Then next class he agreed with Olivas' statement by saying, again in a high surfer's tone "totally, dude." I don't know what he was on today, but it was HILARIOUS. Keep it up, dude!

During the second part of the class we engaged in debate on art and engineering. Yes, everything in the world has a bit of engineering but art is also important. How do we know this? Daniel (who was holding this Dumbo Kola thing that allegedly only cost Bs. 250) explained why engineering was important for building cars (yeah, surprise surprise) and how Industrial Designers were also engineers. But then Calabria hit back by saying that if it wasn't for the art put into the car to make it look nice nobody would buy it. "Nobody will drive around in a square" Calabria claimed. Then we started to imagine people driving in triangle-shaped cars, honking and waving and all... lol. Then Rodrigo came up with the idea of a spherical car (you know, he's Brazilian) and how you can just push the car on it's side when you get mad at the driver and they'll just roll and roll and roll... sweet sweet revenge.

Now, for a second, let's imagine Daniel as an engineer (okay, well, but try really hard and maybe you could get the picture). He spends a couple of years building this car, his pride, his everything. Then he asks someone to try it and the innocent victim goes into the car, turns the keys and KABOOOM! the car blows up! You know what's the saddest part of this? That it's likely to happen...

Yet another incident that took place during Econ class was Calabria's whining. Marcella asked Mr. Rugg if it was true that the school was going to buy new computers for the school next year, thing to which Rugg replied positively. And then all of a sudden Calabria says in a whiney/shy/gayish voice/manner "you always buy new computer but never new art supplies" and we all just cracked up. Rugg because of the way he said it, but the rest of us because we believe art to be useless and the money should go to the technology department no matter what (okay, maybe not because of that, but that's what we told him).

Finally, when we were leaving the class, Mr. Rugg said something about a Carioca (you know, in his Brazilian accent, which would be "Charioka") and people ask what that is, and Rod says "ah, it's like a guajiro..." and well, we just walked away as fast as we could...