Most of my memories from college I owe to Caroline Harkins and Meagan Galarde. Hours upon hours were spent snuggling in bed, driving in circles, drinking coffee and catching up on our boy issues. One night, me and Galarde helped Caro with her art project. Read below... it's an oldie but a goodie.
Dedicated to you Caro and Galarde.
Today Galarde and I helped Caroline with her art project. The assignment was to make a 3D city out of paper. Most students in Caro's class do something simple just to get the assignment out of the way, but Caro is a genius when it comes to being creative. Caro created a 3D city using paper and cardboard. After painting the base and gluing all of the 3D buildings down, Caro, Galarde and I walked outside the Phi Mu with a lighter in hand. If everyone in the class had the same assignment, Caro's work of art had to have an edge to it. The idea was to burn some of the edges of the buildings to make the city look smoldered and burnt.
Now, one should always be careful when playing with fire; this I have discovered. All was going as planned as we lit leaves on fire and blew them out to create a charcoaled look around the base of the buildings. It took a really long time for fire to ignite. We blazed the tops of the buildings making the paper buildings sizzle in uneven edges. It began to look very professional! As soon as Caro lit the tops of the buildings with the lighter, Galarde's job was to blow the fire out. I also, helped with this job. It was a tedious task because we only blew the fire out when the artist, Caroline, told us it was appropriately burnt in her eyes. This was the fun part!
As Caro is lighting and we are blowing the blaze out, all of a sudden the fire got big. Like huge! All at once Caro's art project began blazing to the ground before our eyes. Laughter began. Have you ever tried to blow something out while laughing? Yeah, its ridiculously hard. Especially with Galarde on the opposite side trying to blow and laugh at the same time. She is literally rocking back and forth in peels of laughter as Caro is frantically trying to blow out the flames. Like, Caro is freaking out. The project she spent all night on is burning to a crisp. Have you ever accidentally deleted your 8 page paper and had to start over again? Yeah, that's probably what was going through Caro's mind. She continues to blow but the fire is not going out only spreading to the other 3D paper buildings.
Dana runs out of the house frenzied over the small fire. She sees the flames and thinks the Phi Mu house is burning. As the fire finally goes out the city is gone. All that's left are the ashes from the paper buildings.
Caroline's response: "Should we go to Wal Mart and get a little fire truck for the city?"
My response: "I think it's a little late for that."
As Caro is lighting and we are blowing the blaze out, all of a sudden the fire got big. Like huge! All at once Caro's art project began blazing to the ground before our eyes. Laughter began. Have you ever tried to blow something out while laughing? Yeah, its ridiculously hard. Especially with Galarde on the opposite side trying to blow and laugh at the same time. She is literally rocking back and forth in peels of laughter as Caro is frantically trying to blow out the flames. Like, Caro is freaking out. The project she spent all night on is burning to a crisp. Have you ever accidentally deleted your 8 page paper and had to start over again? Yeah, that's probably what was going through Caro's mind. She continues to blow but the fire is not going out only spreading to the other 3D paper buildings.
Dana runs out of the house frenzied over the small fire. She sees the flames and thinks the Phi Mu house is burning. As the fire finally goes out the city is gone. All that's left are the ashes from the paper buildings.
Caroline's response: "Should we go to Wal Mart and get a little fire truck for the city?"
My response: "I think it's a little late for that."
DG
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