This week has been crazy. It was fun spending the weekend with my cousins, but the trip back to DC was a bit of a mess. I few back from Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina and then from there to Baltimore. Unfortunately, I was flying US Airways, and airline that in my experience is quite poor in terms of their service. My flight from Atlanta was delayed because they book the flights so close together that any little problem can cause a big delay. Because of the delay, we arrived late, and I had less than twenty minutes between when I stepped off the plane and when it was to push back from the gate. I was told the wrong gate, so I headed to another terminal. Luckily, I checked the boards and found my gate was back where I was originally. I walked straight onto my plane but not before they made me check my bag. I was not happy about that.
My flight headed to the runway, and then we stopped. The captain came on and explained that he had been told by the tower that they couldn't take off for 35 minutes. I wouldn't have bothered for much except that I had one friend picking me up at the airport who had school in the morning and another friend coming to stay with me that night. When we landed, I went to claim my bag, and, of course, my friend Amy, who was there to pick me up, had just been told by a police officer, but two minutes before I was ready, to move and had to circle the airport to pick me up. It took her about a half an hour to make it through the traffic and back to where she was originally waiting for me. I had R let my friend, Candice into the building because my roommate, N, wasn't home yet, and I wasn't either. I finally arrived home at about midnight and hurriedly went to bed.
Monday started the NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Teacher, which I was helping with. Most of my adventures can be found here. I really enjoy working with the teachers, and I am learning so much about NIST and techniques for teaching science. I really enjoyed the Ballistics Lab Tour. They let us try on the bulletproof vests and they let us take a test shot at one of the vests they were testing. It was a really cool tour.
On Wednesday, we got to take a tour of NASA. It was really cool, but a bit long and at some points boring. The first thing we saw was really cool. It was a giant sphere that had different images projected on it. We looked at earth pictures showing flights around the world, pollution and other things. We also toured a facility that had very large equipment, including a four story clean room and a giant centrifuge, which were being used for the new James Webb telescope. We also talked with Darren’s adviser, which was really interesting. He has had an amazing career.
I also had a really fun time with my friend, Candice. She was in town for a few days, so we went out to have dinner together for and then grabbed ice cream on Monday night. Tuesday we went and saw Despicable me in the park, which was fun. All the fun tired me out, because I ended up staying up pretty late every night and waking up pretty early.
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