~Teddy Wagenknecht, Class of 2028

The World Has Ever Seen

The eclipse on Monday was disappointing. The reason why It was disappointing was I thought it was going to be a lot darker since we saw 94% of the eclipse,but even 6% of the sun is still pretty bright. The mood I was feeling was absolute excitement because I had never seen one before. The eclipse was so cool and I did not think that this was possible and it was astonishing to see it almost full. 

I feel sad knowing  that it will be approximately 20 years until the next solar Eclipse, and the eclipse won’t even be in Massachusetts, the path of totality will be in Montana, South and North Dakota; and a lot can happen in twenty years. There could be a war or an astronomical downfall or a new discovery of a species in the sea. 

Let’s jump twenty years and see what my life is like. Well, I’m really hoping I will do something important like being an ambassador. Actually now that I think about it, I do want to be an ambassador. I will be the ambassador to Mexico or Canada. I would love to be married to a beautiful blonde; and to live in New York or Washington DC. 

Enough with that, the real thing about the eclipse is that the way we saw it was really atomically fizzing to see it. With the glasses on it was interesting to see what the sun looked like without losing your vision and also it was very fun to see it with my friends. The person I sat with was my best friend Theo Hirst and hung out with some kids playing 21.

Then when we saw the moon, it looked like the sun turned into a cookie and was slowly getting devoured by the moon; also we did relay races and sprints while we waited for the sun to get blocked by the moon. While the relay races were going on, kids were playing 21, When The moon started to cover the sun and I felt that the apocalypse was about to start,and everywhere around me was dark and the temperature dropped like 10 degrees. 

Nevertheless, that was an awesome way to see my first Eclipse. Also thanks to Mr Laird for making it possible and giving us the right equipment to experience this amazing phenomenon.