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January 2, 2095
Dear Mom and Dad,
How are you? I hope you are fine. How is Sirius? Did he like the chew toy I sent? I hope so. I hope he has stopped chewing the legs on the kitchen table.
Thanks for sending the chocolate poundcake. It's lighter than a feather. Everyone loved it!
School is going fine. Once I figured out how to Get Ready to Find Constellations, they were pretty easy to find. I really like this class. Don't faint or anything, but when my friends Valentina and Yuri said we should do extra credit, I said, "OK. Let's Find the Constellation Cassiopeia." It was cool, but not as interesting as the first time I saw the North Star. My teacher marks us off if we don't call it by its proper name - Polaris. You're probably wondering why I am so interested in finding it since it was the first star you ever showed me when I was little. That makes it special, but now it's also special because I watched it set below the horizon! I forgive you for telling me that it is always in the night sky because it never sets. hehehe
Did you watch the Lunar Eclipse a few weeks ago? My whole class watched. It was awesome! It's kind of weird to think of, though. At the same moment in time on December 21, 2094, we watched the same eclipse - but you were watching a lunar eclipse and I was watching a solar eclipse.
I thought I would be too homesick to spend my December Holidays in Space, but I had a lot of fun. Besides watching the earth eclipse the sun, we also went to the Grand Armstrong Observatory and watched some very spooky looking stuff near the North Pole. I couldn't believe it when the teacher said those Eerie Night Skies were an aurora borealis. All those colors dancing on the earth were something to see.
You know how you are always saying that Amateur Astronomy Reduces Stress? Well, I think you are sort of right. Astronomy is very exciting and I'm glad I'm studying it. Yet, it relaxes me when I'm just stargazing, no matter where I am - at home on Earth or here at school on the Moon.
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