Hello Everyone! Welcome to the last day of Space Camp. The day that we graduate from the ‘Advanced Space Academy’ and get to wear our blue flight suits with pride. So, let’s reflect on the week. We started the week by dragging our heavy bags up the stairs to a small dorm room and complaining about the horrible beds. To breakfast at the cafeteria, eating food out of small Styrofoam bowls, from performing AOA missions to the 6 hour EDM mission. Space camp has probably been the most memorable experience any of us have had. We formed close bonds with our counsellors and all the staff there at space camp, and we would like to thank everyone there for helping us try our best at every activity and challenge thrown at us.
Today started off with us waking up and packing our bags so we could leave Huntsville and head off to Orlando, Florida. We had extra time to get ready, but still it wasn’t enough time to properly pack all our stuff and take all our bags to a room so we could get them later. So off to breakfast we went to say goodbye to all the staff. We then headed off to the gift shop to buy gifts for ourselves and our families and explored the museum, and tried some of the simulators in the museum.
After rock climbing and landing the shuttle a couple of times we headed off to graduate from Space Academy. It was really great, we got our patches and people who had won the competitions during the week got their prizes, and the “Right Stuff” award was given out, this award was basically an award that is given out to the person that exemplifies the qualities that Space Camp tries to teach students (i.e. teamwork, leadership etc.) We were given T-Shirts and then we said our goodbye’s to our fantastic counsellors that made us feel so welcome (Thanks so much Jer-Bear and Em-Dog) [Insert Jer-Bear dance here]
We then went back to where our luggage was and ‘chilled’ for a while, we watched Batman and hopped on the computers for a little while to communicate with our relatives on the other side of the world. Soon after that we had to pack up all our stuff and climb onto the bus and head to the airport. The first flight went smoothly, but then- as we were boarding the second flight to Orlando. A three hour delay has slowed us down for a little bit so it looks like it will be a long night. Bye for now…
Kristen and Ryan B.
Ps. Kristen was too modest to mention it was her that won “THE RIGHT STUFF” medal.
Pps. Didn’t get to the hotel till 4.00am-decided to delay our departure to Epcot till 10.00am-we need the sleep. Graeme.
