No Love for China’s Solar Eclipse
Typical of Chinese weather, it was a rainy, miserable, overcast day when there was finally something worth doing outside. Everyone knew it was going to be a bad day, and yet everyone still showed up at the park, umbrellas and special visors in hand, hoping determination would somehow trump the forecast and bring the sun out. It didn’t work. But the entrepreneurs continued to peddle visors even after the park announced over the loud speaker that there was nothing to see here, folks, move along, now, move along.
I guess I shouldn’t be too disappointed, because I didn’t find out there was a total solar eclipse happening in China until two days prior. But when the subject came up in class, you better believe I was excited. I had never seen one before and expected it to be a very surreal and humbling experience. Yeah, it was still cool to see the world turn dark for six minutes, but not being able to witness the actual phenomenon was a major letdown, a huge missed opportunity. The next eclipse to last this long isn’t due until 2132. Mark your calendars!
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Responses to “No Love for China’s Solar Eclipse”
Comments RSS Feed – All Commentsrakel — 24 July 2009 @ 10:56 pm
first of,Yup i “marked” 2132 on the calendar!!!! you got me smiling there!
So it rained there during that total eclipse,here it was very cloudy but still many people were out and when it was dark already everybody was screeeming!!! i wis we could also comment on your blogs using a photo,wink wink!!…
Clark — 25 July 2009 @ 9:52 am
Photo…. of what?
rakel — 26 July 2009 @ 7:17 am
i mean instead of typing our comments on your blog,would it also be nice if we just upload a photo as a comment…or upload photo similar to the photo you attached. Hey never mind it’s just a wish… keep the blogs coming!!!! i read almost all the blogs because facebook is not yet working….i got nothing more to read he he he he!
Clark — 26 July 2009 @ 7:55 am
Ah, I see. Your “wink, wink” threw me off. Like, “wink, wink, I got a picture of the solar eclipse and you didn’t!” Photo comments would be cool, though, but it’ll be a while before I can look into it.
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