Bottle Rockets and Hyper Teenage Girls!

Well, today was another one of those days. A day where nothing really occurs but yet many things do. Like, for instance, today I attended a meeting at the library because I'm a teen volunteer (which, believe it or not, my parents had no part in). The meeting was so we could get our schedules and be trained on what we're supposed to do during our 12 hours of volunteering during this summer. This "important" meeting was supposed to last one hour, which seemed lengthy considering the agenda. Half of an hour later we were dismissed. Luckily for me, I live within 5 mins. walking distance of our library, and most of the other teens needed to get rides back home, so they ended up waiting at the library for a half an hour playing Pictionary with the librarians (which didn't sound like the most appealing invitation ever). That was one of the most pointless meetings I have ever been to. Basically half of the time spent during this important gathering was the girl behind me that was in the ninth or tenth grade, was acting much more like a fifth grader who had eaten many pixie stix just minutes before, and she wouldn't stop talking and then she would ask the librarian what she had just said because she "didn't hear what she said". AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH! It seems like I type that alot, especially when I'm talking about things that occur in my life. One of the coolest things that I've ever done in school happened today; we launched bottle rockets! Not the firework, but in Astronomy class, we built pop bottle rockets the last few days. Today was launch day, which was really, really AWESOME! The way it works is that we hook up an air compressor to a pole attached to a wooden rack and we compress about 90 pounds of force with about 50% water in the first 2 liter pop bottle you see above in the picture. Then we have the countdown from five, and then, BOOM! Those little pop bottles go at least 300 ft in the air and go about 90-100 yards. That is one of the coolest things I've ever done! My friend got some HD video of the launch, so I'll probably have that tomorrow or Wednesday. That about wraps it up for today, so I guess I'll blog y'all later! (wow, that was sooo lame Jake. )