The Solar Eclipse Adventures : Solar Eclipse Adventures

It was a beautiful hot summer day at Lake James, Indiana. My family and I were on our boat and my brother had just finished Wakeboarding. Now, it was my turn to go, so I put on my Wakeboard and jump out to the freezing water.

Based on Annie Dillard’s account of witnessing a total eclipse in her essay “Total Eclipse” I would have to say she definitely encourages her readers to witness a total eclipse. She says that it is almost the opposite of a partial eclipse, which I am sure most people have seen many times before, that’s how different they are and I believe most people including myself think partial eclipses are spectacular and almost dreamlike.

Louis Masur, as a professor of history has delivered a significant contribution to the comprehensive understanding of various events and their relevance to the development status of the American society. In the 1831: Year of Eclipse book, the author presents an important text, in which he discusses the reasons why he believes the 1831, the year of the eclipse, is an important factor in the American development journey. The American current development status is a product of many of events and processes, most of which have delivered a significant impact on the social, economic, as well as political spheres of the country.

It was a Wednesday night during the summer when something happened to me that I will never forget. My volleyball team was in Hutchinson for a summer league. I was not able to play because I have Rheumatoid Arthritis so I went to support them. I was ecstatic because we had gone undefeated that night. While they were playing, storms were building up just outside of Hutch. When I walked out to my truck, I noticed that the storms had come closer and closer. Also while I was walking, it started to lightly sprinkle. When I left the Salthawk Activity Center, it started to downpour. Little did I know, my night was about to be turned upside down.

On a blazing hot summer early morning with the city traffic roaring! And the hot sun blazing, birds chirping and the smell of fresh green grass. Me and my family were packing and getting ready for our yearly powwow trail trip. My mooshum and kokum were they’re usual selves laughing and cracking jokes, I and my cousins knew they weren’t that funny but laughed at their jokes anyways. After we were all packed and ready we all piled into my kookum’s van and set off to our destination with the hot sun reflecting off the black pavement. The drive to Muskoday reserve was long and tiring, the van was humid and making us irritated, so I decided to roll down my window to let the summer air cool us off, the cool breeze was flowing and the music was booming! A bit later we arrived to our destination with our eyes popping taking in all the scenery around us, mind you this was our first time being in the reserve Muskoday. The excitement of being there and meeting new people was over whelming, the anxious feeling of just wanting to run off and enjoy the scenery with my cousins and friends I had met before from the powwow trails we took yearly.

the author has seen a partial eclispe in 1970, Dillard states “ Its bear almost no realtion to a total elclipse”. She express her felelings about comparong a partial eclipse to a full eclipse to “ kissing a man does to marrying him”. Dillard explained the eclipse as “ Now the sky to the west depend to indgo, a color never seen. A dark sky usually loses color, this was a saturated, deep ingo, up in the air”,this sense created a idea that not everyone was not promise a certain time here on earth.

I was standing in line with my friends Liya and Kathryn and my dad who was buying four Six Flags tickets. Our bodies were all sweaty from the hot burning weather. My mouth slowly opened and I hardly breathed like some crazy animal was chasing me. It was so hot! I grabbed the dark green tall water bottle from my dad’s blue backpack, and pressed my lips against the little plastic straw and started hungrily drinking the fresh clean water. Then my hands quickly put the water bottle in the small black pocket of the backpack.

One dark, howling night in October, I was camping at Lake Greeson all alone. It was freezing. I felt as if I opened the tent there would be ten feet of snow. The campfire needed to be put out before I went to bed.

In the desert like heat of the wild west of southern Colorado, lays a valley in the Rockie Mountains cut by the roaring waters of the Arkansas River. On one hot summer day, my friends and I got on our bikes and peddled as fast as we could to our favorite spot to swim in the river, Black Bridge. This spot was the best place to be during the extremely hot weather. On this particular day, the river was rather rambunctious as it was thrashing about. Knowing that the river was in a dangerous state I was reluctant to get in, but I was desperate to quench the immense heat. Once I got into the roaring water I had felt the mighty tug of the current. I was growing concerned, but all of my worries and anxieties were worsened when I

The hike was only a little more ways left to the campsite, and we had to hurry because it started getting dark. The sky had a pink hue, and the clouds were scattered everywhere. We went over a sketchy looking bridge that was over water, and then went down a rather large hill. We finally got to the campsite as the sun was setting. We immediately set up our tents and hammocks to get settled in. After the tents were all up, we started up a fire. We started it out small, and then built it up to the point where it was raging. The five of us huddled around the fire watching cinders shoot of into the air and told stories for hours. The fire started to die down so we put it out and went to bed. I took my one person tent and my sleeping bag and went off to hit the

I quickly changed into comfortable clothes and woke my brother up (which probably took five minutes) and ate breakfast. I hopped into our rental car, which was presumably small. Three layers of soft, feathered blankets over me, and probably holding onto five different head pillows. “I can’t believe we get to go to South Padre Island for three days!” I yelled to my family. It takes about eight hours to arrive at our hotel, so I definitely got carsick. The good news was that we got to eat fast food! Andrew and I got to sleep a lot while the parents got to drive. We arrived after 7 pm to our hotel. Then, we grabbed our heavy, bulky, luggage and brought them to our room to the 2nd floor. After we unpacked, we were exhausted and all but we still had the stamina to go down to the beach and take a view on the glazing ocean water. It looked very delicate like a clear foil was laid on top of the water. I doused my feet in the cool, numb water. While digging my hands deep in the soft, cushy, sand, I could feel all the grains go

On a family trip to Yosemite when I was in elementary school, my family and I hiked to the base of Vernal Falls, a waterfall in Yosemite. Full of enthusiasm, I decided to hike to the top. My dad and I took a trail adjacent to the waterfall. Two-thirds of the way up, the path drew close against the falls and the granite trail became slick from moisture. My dad felt unable to climb the rest of the way, so I continued by myself. It was challenging to scale the slick stone, but I was determined to finish the hike. My tenacity paid off, propelling me to the top of the falls and

Back in August 2004, up in Frisco Colorado, my family and I were coming back from a family trip up in the mountains. We pulled into a gas station to fill up our motorhome. As were filling up, the maintenance tech came out of started to fiddle with the gas pump and before you know it, our motorhome caught on fire. Some of my family members were inside and some

I can’t remember the year exactly, I was in a fire on the monorail at Disney World, one of the happiest places on the planet. My friend and I were facing backwards in the front car when we noticed as we came around the corner a great orange glow from the back car. The train stopped and people in the back car started climbing out of the windows up on the top of the car. So we were sitting there, smoke-filled the doors popped open and the windows popped open, and we sat there for three hours until the fire department picked everyone off with ladders and cherry pickers.

"Nature is considered to be God's territory. It is where we feel an awareness of truth and a sense of closeness to that field of energy which created all that is." (Apollon, Susan B. “Nature.” Love To Feel Good Blog, Brian Gardner Studio Press, 2008, lovetofeelgoodblog.com/tag/nature/.) A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes in front of the sun, therefore, causing a shadow to cast upon the Earth. I had the opportunity to witness this breathtaking and miraculous experience. It was an ordinary day with an extraordinary event. August 21st no longer a day only to be remembered in NASA's archives but a life changing moment for myself.