Flying stars across netscape!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN???

I was thinking today about in 4th grade Alicia Canning and I did this online project. It was about the time that teachers were using computers for spelling tests, and little games as prizes but no one normally used one. I read an article in a kid magazine, the ones that are handed out and you read for silent reading when you have completed your classwork.

This article was about this woman who was following Amelia Earharts route around the world, and it was being tracked online. There was a certain place where you could send her emails and talk to her via IM; I became so interested. A teacher, Mr. Lopes down the hall talked to me, and brought me to the library one day to use the computer and talk with her. It was so cool, I loved it!

Day by day I would recieve my own emails from her, and check her movement. I think it is hilarious because Mr. Lopes was teaching me how to turn on a computer, and see when the internet page was completly uploaded by the "N" in the right corner with stars flying by.

I remember how mad I was when Mr. Lopes told me I needed a "partner for a day" because the newspaper was coming to take pictures and talk to me, and they wanted two students who were doing it. So Alicia was picked because she was a good student, even though she wasn't doing my project. I so mad that I wasn't getting all the recognition, and when I look back at it now I can't help but chuckle.