On Monday April 8, there was a solar eclipse. It was visible all around the United States and Mexico.

In Texas, the eclipse was during school hours meaning some schools let their students go out and view it with special glasses that will not hurt your eyesight. In fact, my school was one of those schools that let kids go out and view it. It was only biology or chemistry classes that were let out to view it.

When I saw it, it looked like just a big light with a dark surrounding covering the light and it was amazing. It was the first time I ever used the glasses and viewed them without my eyes hurting a bit.

Students and teachers were talking about it throughout the day and had an enjoyable moment.

“I had fun watching the eclipse,” sophomore Angel Padilla said. “When we first went outside it was not as dark but after a few minutes it was somewhat dark and I was able to use the glasses and watch how the moon was covering the sun. The outline of the sun not being fully covered by the moon was cool and I was excited to see the eclipse without my eyesight hurting.”

Junior Ximena Guajardo enjoyed the time getting to experience the eclipse with classmates.

“The eclipse was nice, but I did not in fact like that it was not as dark as I saw in other places where it happened,” Guajardo said. “But other than that, I had so much fun watching the eclipse with friends at school and being able to take pictures and being able to talk to others on how it looked and on how fun my experience was.”