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3 September 2010

#247 Start a bad choir

School has started again, so for those of you who think that it is monotonous with teachers, homework and project work, 365 gives you seven things you can do at your school.

One of the best things I know is when people do things they really should not do. Like old people stripping or ugly people who start working as models. Dogs that play cards. Talentless idiots who go in to acting, though they shouldn’t, and make everyone around them angry. It is just wonderful. Because they do it anyway.

Singing even though you can’t is alright to do in the shower or in the four concrete walls of your home. But doing it around people is not nice. And to gather all your friends who can’t sing and starting a bad choir is among the most unpleasant things one could do do. Therefore, it’s also quite beautiful; that people who can’t sing get to sing. And that everyone else gets provoked.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
It probably sounds a like a bitch.
Pros: 
It can be a lot of fun. You learn a lot of new songs. The body feels good from singing, physically. It’s pleasant to let the vocal cords vibrate and the hips sway to the beat of the music.
Taggar: your vocal cords, tram session, seven things you can do at your school, out of step, Marble House, indie choir, a bad start driving, 365 things everyone can sing
2 September 2010

#246 Organize a trading table

Bring your old socks to school and see if anyone is interested. You never know.

Bring your old socks to school and see if anyone is interested. You never know.

School has started again, and for those of you who think that it is monotonous with teachers, homework and project work, 365 gives you seven things you can do at your school.

Surveys, in-depth interviews with the country's brightest minds and a group of 20 researchers’ careful research have now discovered that pupils in Swedish schools do not have lot of money to spend. It has been determined that it is time to find creative ways to save money instead of going about in rags. After several years in a laboratory, two of the researchers have developed the Trading Table.

The Trading Table serves as a regular table. The difference is that instead of putting buns and juice on the table to take a coffee break, you fill the table surface with things you do not want. Books, magazines, CDs, clothes, gadgets. The table can be in a corridor at your school. Then the 1for1-rule is in effect meaning that you may take one thing off the table if you put another thing there in return.

Bonus – Trade Trade Trade-collective in Gothenburg

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
There are always those who do not follow common rules. It could be that some think that the table takes up too much space and move it.
Pros: 
You can find bargains by switching off the shawl you’re fed up with for a new hat.
Taggar: used clothes, stockings, seven things you can do at your school, hat, free, changing table, 365 things
1 September 2010

#245 Organize a water fight

Photo: www.rodolfoclix.com.br

Photo: www.rodolfoclix.com.br

School has started again, and for those of you who think that it is monotonous with teachers, homework and project work 365 gives you: Seven things you can do at your school.

When I was in middle school, I was in the worst class in the whole of Göteborg. All the teachers were afraid of us and our class teacher got tired of us and put herself in a psychiatric ward because she could not handle our particular bunch of restless twelve year-olds. Instead we had a substitute named Stefan. Stefan was a former UN soldier, used snuff and had black boots. Instead of having math lessons he arranged full-scale water fights with water guns, buckets filled with water and water balloons. The whole staff room was spotted with puddles, the asphalt in the playground adopted a darker hue, and our wet clothes hung as heavy dog fur from our bodies. It was the most enjoyable month of my years in school.

Bonus - Water War North against South 080,808th This is really serious.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
It gets wet. You might slip. The occasional teacher may become irritated. You may need to carry an extra change of clothing.
Pros: 
It is much more fun than sitting on your hands doing nothing at all.
Taggar: wet, water wars, temp, seven things you can do at your school, north against south, changing facilities, balloons, 365 things
31 August 2010

#244 Bring a lunch box

Bringing your own food also invites creative solutions.

Bringing your own food also invites creative solutions.

To this day I still have major problems with eating crumbed fish. I blame the lunch ladies I had in high school. It is their fault that I can’t look at a fish stick without feeling my gag reflex starting to bounce in my throat. I can’t even think of a bread crumbed cod without recoiling into the fetal position.

Even though they were disgustingly cooked and served without passion, neither I nor my classmates ever thought of taking our own food to school. Every now and then I spent my allowance on pizza or buns from the supermarket. Instead I should have had lunch boxes and brought food from home. I should have taken a piece of yesterday's dinner, or even put myself to work and cooked a good omelet or a stew.

But you learn from your mistakes. I would never eat crumbed fish in a school today no matter where I am. I always have a lunchbox with me in case it happens.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Less than €10
Cons: 
The staff in the dining room can take it personally when you set the table with candles, fancy cutlery and your own food.
Pros: 
You won’t have to eat disgusting food.
Taggar: seven things you can do at your school, school, pasta, lunch box, gag reflex, breaded fish, 365 things