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It has been almost eight weeks since my dad left Earth and everything seems to be back to normal. My sister is back home and finishing her semester in school. I am back home and preparing for my SOLs. My dad calls me at least once a week. My mom even programed our phone so it reads, “Space Station” on the caller ID. I am also able to have a video conference with my dad about once a month. It’s kind of like Skype, except every call has to be connected through the nice people at NASA. We had our second video conference yesterday. Dad is doing well and staying very busy. He has a LOT of work! He lectured me on responding to his e-mails. I’m not very good at that. He has given me a tour of parts of the Space Station and I was able to meet a few of the other Astronauts and Cosmonauts on board. I do miss him and the video confrences make it a lot easier.