when reading a second “This i believe”piece i realized that we had read the intro to it in class, but i continued to see what it was about. it is about how this astronaut sees the world as a whole when he is in space. he doesn’t see all the wars and poverty and bad stuff he just sees a world, the place where we live. this makes him optimistic, he believes that if 16 very different nations can work together to make a space station, two of which were enemies not that long ago, then there is hope for our planet.  i think hes right

i think that the intro to this piece isn’t very good. its boring and very unclear. i think i only kept reading because the title was interesting. the piece as a whole didn’t end up being that bad but i think that it would have helped to have a much catchier intro paragraph.