June 27

DAILY LIFE IN SPACE

Today we arrived at the ISS. It is the most amazing thing that I have ever seen. When I got there I felt a rumble in my stomach. Today was the day I was going to have to eat in space. One of the things that I was not looking forward to was eating. They feed us bags of microwavable food and every body ate together. It's the time where everybody talks, because they don't see each other most of the day. I was given a bag that said beef with vegetables, add water heat up for 5 to 10 minutes. I felt like I did when is in Chad and I was about to eat bugs.I stabbed my spoon into the mush meal and threw it into my mouth. It did not taste that bad, but it felt very

weird in my mouth.

June 29
I have so much free time, one of things that I like to do during this time is looking at the Earth;I feel as though I am in a whole new world, looking down at my old one. I also read and listen music. One of the things I need to do is keep fit in space. They have equipment like a treadmill that they strap me to so that I don't float away while running. I met a man at dinner who has been in space for 8 months. I have met lot of interesting people up in space.

July 14
Today is the day I have to fix the satellite I was looking through the tools that I had to use. I was fairly familiar with all the tools because I used them in my training. Mias and I had to get suited up. My space suit was three layers thick. We boarded the space shuttle and headed towards the the satellite. When we arrived we gathered our tools and went out space walking. The suit had a lot of cool features. For example I could talk to Mias with a little microphone that was built into the suit. Once we were on the satellite we found the problem very quickly. We got out are tools and started working.I held the screw while Mias hammered. It took us about seven minutes to fix the satellite.