A Dream Fulfilled

5,4,3,2,1 we have lift off. I’m off into outer space. The force of the rocket engines is powerful. My body shakes from the engine’s thrust. This force on my body fills like hurricane wind, pushing against my body and I can’t move forward. This force last for about a minute which seems like an eternity, a long time. This feeling slowly dissipate, goes away. Chills run through my body because I’m about to fulfill an ultimate dream, which is to go into space and explore the upper universe/ the unknown. We are now in the clouds and moving away from earth at four hundred miles and hour. The ride is getting smoother by the second and I can now breathe easy. WOW! This is unbelievable. I look back at Earth and I see a lot of blue and white. I can only see half of Earth and it is a spectacle. I do feel sad because I’m leaving the only planet I have called home. I’ll be back. I get my thought on my task at hand and we are zipping through the atmosphere cruising at six hundred miles per hour.

We leave light and enter the night life in space. This look in space resembles the big city lights of New York, Miami or California. What do you think created the similarities? The billion stars. I’ve lost track of time . It seems like we’ve been traveling for hours when in reality its been about thirty minutes. I guess its true what they say, time flies when you’re having fun. We are approaching the moon and we slow down to get a good look at the surface which resembles parts of Earth ‘s surface. I thought I might see a bright banana moon. It was actually round, oh well. Off we blast to the dimmest star because it is the farthest away. We decided to stretch our stiff bodies. How weird it is, not being able to do anything fast like we do on earth, but its cool to be able to fly/float.

We get back into out seats and fatigue set in on us. I’m afraid for both of us to fall asleep, especially since the space ship will be going forward, but my captain assured me that it will be okay, because the ship will pilot itself. ZZZZZZZZZZ, I dream about one of my favorite classes which was my second graders that I taught how to play golf by taking them to the PE field to work on their golf swing twice a week for an hour.

My eyes open and I think I’m still sleeping because there is nothing but darkness. Then I realized that we have past the farthest star and this is what we see. A black page. Where does it end? Is there anything past the darkness? Its time to get home to Earth. This is unforgettable. The beauty and size of the universe is unimaginable. We blast through space headed back to Earth zooming through the city of stars. We enter Earth’s atmosphere and prepare to land. A crowd and plenty of media people await out arrival. We exit the space ship and the crowd cheers and I tell my pilot Rachel who was my second grade student and now is an astronaut. Thanks for making my ultimate dream come true.

Gracias Rachel for a dream fulfilled,

Your Second Grade Teacher

Mr. Givens