So today at school we had a optional field trip which is basically a field trip you have to write a paper to go but today only fifteen people could go and I was one. It was space convention and we got to meet an astronaut .So me,my teacher, and fourteen other students, and a group of students from another school crammed into one bus. As we were driving to the the hotel where the convention was being held the people in the bus were so loud that the bus driver yelled at us to be quiet...five times and I sat next to my friends talking about funny stories (and where we think we were going because we forgot what hotel it was at). But once we got there about ten other groups of students from different schools were already there and I saw some of my old friends that left to other schools. We had to wait for about five minutes for other schools to show up and we had to take group photos. Finally we got to enter the ball room that it was being held in and there were different booths with different space subjects. Are group had to move from booth to booth and we got free stuff like pins, pencils, pens, bags, and these glasses that turn light reflections into rainbows. So it turned into basically a amazing swag bag. We also got to do these cool experiments like project a image with light and use a iphone app to track satellites but the one I wanted to do the most we couldnt do because we ran out of time but it was with lasers and mirrors. By the time we got to hear the astronaut talk I and everyone else was starving so when the he was finished talking he said it was almost time for lunch everyone cheered and he said that we are more excited for lunch than meeting a astronaut and we have are priorities wrong. But what he said was very interesting and he showed us a video of what life was like for him in space. After that a person who works with satellites was talking and it was boring...until he brought up aliens and as a whovian I was excited but my friend who sat next to me kept talking then I kept talking and we some how came up with the idea that there is no martians just space mermaids (random I know). At the end of every thing we ate a picnic style lunch on the grass and the staff gave us table clothes to sit on. Finally we went back on the bus but as we were driving, the group from are school challenged the other school to a sing off it was really fun and I had a great time at this field trip.
-sh