the class decided to have an origami workshop. they are to teach each other whatever items they know. so far, so good.
my death-wish leaped to the fore, and i offered to teach them how to make a paper crane. this met with unanimously approving noises, and i got all self-congratulatory thinking of what a master manipulator i am - the idea being, to trick the little dragons into getting interested in cranes, then in japan, and then to lead it to the hiroshima-nagasaki bombing and then on to a discussion on ww2.
i spent the entire evening learning to make the crane, and got frustrated to the point of wanting to personally shoot/poison/strangle/pan-fry all cranes in the world. i finally did master it - i am not called obsessive for nothing. i managed to finish making one crane, and rushed into class holding aloft the magenta masterpeice and yelled eureka fashion - look-at-this, look-at-this! what's this?
the answer? dinosaur!!!!
robert burns did get it right when he wrote - "The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley" in his ''to a mouse'.
in case anyone is interested in learning to make the crane, this is a good link http://monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane
my death-wish leaped to the fore, and i offered to teach them how to make a paper crane. this met with unanimously approving noises, and i got all self-congratulatory thinking of what a master manipulator i am - the idea being, to trick the little dragons into getting interested in cranes, then in japan, and then to lead it to the hiroshima-nagasaki bombing and then on to a discussion on ww2.
i spent the entire evening learning to make the crane, and got frustrated to the point of wanting to personally shoot/poison/strangle/pan-fry all cranes in the world. i finally did master it - i am not called obsessive for nothing. i managed to finish making one crane, and rushed into class holding aloft the magenta masterpeice and yelled eureka fashion - look-at-this, look-at-this! what's this?
the answer? dinosaur!!!!
robert burns did get it right when he wrote - "The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley" in his ''to a mouse'.
in case anyone is interested in learning to make the crane, this is a good link http://monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane
i used this, though.
What did you mean by 'eureka fashion'? Like Archimedes?
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