Rocket

Soooo, for physics we had to work on our rocket project. We started two weeks before the end of school. Our group was Lucy, Daniel, Christy, and me. At first I wanted to be with my other friends (refer to previous blog) but yeah. Then we (Lucy and me) thought, hey... we can do this ourselves. We might not be as quick (quick thinkers) as the others but we'll get this done ourselves and be proud that we got through it. We ended up falling behind... very. Daniel did calculations, I did drawings, Lucy did the rocket itself, and Christy helped here and there (and thank you so much for providing the posters and other supplies). So Friday came and we were about two days behind. We planned to meet up at Christy's house at Saturday but there were change of plans. So we were going to go for Sunday. The thing is... we werent able to contact Christy or Daniel. Lucy and I started to panic and say "we're failing...." but then I see Christy online and we talked. She said she'll ask her friend to come over and help her since he lived really close. I wanted to work on the poster but she had the poster (wth the poster is $10!) so we decided in the morning she'll come to our first period and give me the poster and we'll paste it on. Fortunately, the poster presentation isnt due until tomorrow so I brought it home to work on it. Now, while we were on the football field (where we'll launch the rocket), Lucy, Daniel, and I waited for Christy to come. Lucy and I stood there panicking hoping she's here. When she came, she took the rocket out of her bag and one of the fins was broken in half (the other half was still glued on the rocket). "OMG!!!" I said. Christy quickly took out her glue and we tried to glue it back together. The whole time we thought, "Man... last minute rocket with a glued fin... it's not going to fly." Because the teacher wants the rocket to fly as high as it can and come back down to the exact target (where we started).
So this is what happened. During launch, only two people could be at the target. One person from Sork's class and one from Cox's class. And for each class, only one person per group goes up to launch. SO when Lucy (the launcher) went up to the target to launch, Christy and I stood (really far back) and prayed, literally. I crossed my fingers and was hoping it would at least go up a little and not embarass us. Once Lucy set it off, the rocket shot up into the air and came back down really close to the target. We were so happy. Christy and I screamed and jumped and I had tears in my eyes.
I named the rocket "Whoosh" but after what happeend today, I changed the rocket's name to "Miracle" haha. So... I have a lto of stuff to do for finals and a lot of project. I just came onto blogger to blog about this. ^_^ yay~