 be curious, not judgmental
Grateful that her mouthful got points instead of judgmental looks from the professor, Sophie gave the man a thumbs-up and finally returned the pleased smile to Zander. This class was going juuuust fine. So good. The best class ever, probably even, and... all those super good feelings went out the window when Airey started talking about... a whole lot of stuff. A lot she knew, but even with her background knowledge on any part of this topic, it still felt like a lot to take in, so she couldn't even imagine how the younger ones were feeling. Overwhelmed for sure, probably, and she felt for them.
But FOSSILS and CRATERS and ROCKS THAT COLLIDED WITH THE EARTH, man. Cool stuff. Aside from all the nitty-gritty details she was missing, Sophie Brown dug it.
Asteroid, meteoroid, meteors, and meteorites. Basic, simple-to-understand terms, and most people had the gist of it. Good on them. Still, Sophie raised a hand to offer her piece, "The ones with the meteor prefix are all related, as one would expect, but a meteorOID is a technical sorta name for the tiny solid bodies moving through our Solar System, s'before it reaches our atmosphere. An easy way to remember THAT one is... a meterOID is in the VOID, and..." Could she say the rest since other people had already elaborated on what a meteor and a meteorite were? SHE WAS GOING TO. "Whereas a meteOR above you SOARs and a meteorITE is in your SIGHT." So she didn't TECHNICALLY give the definition of the last two. Just alluded to them. Ahem.
Workin' the system.
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