“That was not a smart move by me to take ’em off when I’m still looking at the sun.”
Kid

“That was not a smart move by me to take ’em off when I’m still looking at the sun.”

So, I did get to see the eclipse on Monday at school. Uh, they passed out the eclipse glasses, which is nice ‘cause then I could look at the eclipse. Um, but you know, I had quite a bit of an experience with the eclipse… not necessarily a good one, but it happened to a lot of people. So, I put the eclipse glasses on. It was kind of hard cuz I had to take my glasses off to put the eclipse glasses on, because I heard that you're not supposed to put them on over your glasses. But so, I put 'em on, and I was staring at the sun, and it was really, really cool. And I, and I, like, went to turn away, but then I stopped and continued looking at the sun and then I took the glasses off and I'm still looking at the sun for another half a second, but I don't think it did any damage to my retina. It was just because I did it for a half a second. I don't think it did that much damage, but it was really bright. But I'm just fortunate that, you know, it didn't burn my retina. That was not a smart move by me to take 'em off when I'm still looking at the sun. I don't know what was going through my brain, huh? But that's what happens. It happened to a lot of other people at our school too. But yeah, I thought the eclipse was quite cool, but it was also kind of annoying how bright the sun was.

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April 17, 2024
“We were all just looking at the sun, slowly watching it get eaten up and it was great.”
Teen

“We were all just looking at the sun, slowly watching it get eaten up and it was great.”

So, today's prompt is, "Did you see the eclipse last Monday, and if you did, what was your experience like?" So, it was actually really, really fun. There hasn't been an eclipse since when I lived in -- somewhere else, so it felt really great to see it again. And last time it was fun, but not nearly as enjoyable as this time. Last time, we had these little boxes. Little shadow boxes that you could use to see a reflection of the sun or whatever. And then if you were lucky, there'd be like one pair of glasses per little classroom. Uh, and then we would have, like, one pair of glasses for each class. So I got to see through it for like two seconds, twice maybe, during the whole lunar eclipse, or solar eclipse, whatever it was last time. I think it was a lunar eclipse last time. Like, two, two years ago in 2019, I believe?  Something like that. And so it was pretty -- it obviously was 2019, what am I saying? Two thousand -- eh, well, hey, 2019. I don't know. It's been a while, man. And so this time, I was really lucky. We -- I go to a pretty small school, but we get no funding what- whatsoever. But somehow we had enough money to buy every student in the school a pair of solar glasses. And I thought that that was incredible. Very, very nice of them to do that for us. And so it was really great, and we each got a pair, and we got to go outside for the last 20 minutes of class to look at the solar eclipse to see how it was faring. So, the whole school was out in the front or in the back, and we were all just looking at the sun, slowly watching it get eaten up and it was great. It was really, really fun. But it got even more fun when I asked the teacher if I could keep the glasses over -- over the -- over -- if I could keep the glasses overnight because by the time we left the school, it -- the moon -- it wouldn't be at its, like, totality yet. And so I wanted to see it at its totality, and so I asked if I could keep the glasses for a few…

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April 17, 2024
“I had very mixed feelings watching this eclipse.”
Adult

“I had very mixed feelings watching this eclipse.”

I'd like to talk about the eclipse this past week. I watched the spectacle in my backyard with my eclipse glasses that I saved from 2017. And it was spectacular. It, it was really amazing to watch that. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the path of totality, but it was still amazing to watch this beautiful force of nature, to -- that we could, we could see this. However, I was by myself, and I was sad, and I was sad because my husband wasn't here to experience this with me. He passed away in 2016, and he was, he was interested in everything. He was a real science geek. As a matter of fact, he took a weather class in college, partly because he was a sailor and weather was interesting to him. But as I continued to watch the eclipse and thinking about him, I became really pissed. Really pissed off that he wasn't here to experience this with me. I know that if he had been here, we would have driven somewhere in the path of totality to be able to see this. So I- -- I had very mixed feelings watching this, this eclipse. I was amazed at how beautiful it was and how God's creation could unfold so beautifully. I was sad that my husband wasn't here and I was pissed that death had taken away our future.

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April 17, 2024
“So I got to see the solar eclipse today.”
Adult

“So I got to see the solar eclipse today.”

So I got to see the solar eclipse today. It was pretty awesome. I came down to see family in Ohio, in the Cleveland area, which just by sheer luck is in the path of totality and that was, that was really cool. I hadn't experienced that before. When I was -- I was thinking back to the eclipse in 2017. I think it was '17. And I remember just looking through the glasses and seeing the moon block part of the sun. But, but yeah, I guess I forgot or just didn't think about it that we didn't have totality at that time, I'm pretty sure. 'Cause I don't remember seeing the sun, like, that with the corona and everything. And it getting, like, significantly darker. It was just really cool. It was really fun. Um, so yeah, I was, I was hanging out with my, my mom and stepdad. There was a, a sort of solar fest here. So we went to that and that was fun. There was, like, food trucks and, like, science activities for kids that my mom organized 'cause my mom teaches science to kids. But uh, but yeah. It was a really good time.

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April 17, 2024

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