The excitement today was the total solar eclipse. This morning, instead of heading to their usual morning classes, our students and teachers gathered on the roof of the school to watch today’s second dawn.
We each grabbed our sunglasses and some of the kids had made a makeshift camera-obscura out of cereal boxes and tinfoil. The shadow of the moon made a tiny crescent of the sun’s light on the bottom of the boxes, so they could watch without blinding themselves.
We piled on to the roof around 9:00 in the morning and waited patiently for thirty minutes before the eclipse was visible. For the duration of the event, China was locked in darkness for a full six minutes. Then, the sun came out for the second time this morning. The solar system is an incredible thing. For the rest of the day I had “Total Eclipse of the Heart” stuck in my head.
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