I love chemistry!

Ok so I haven't decided if I love chemistry or if I just love my classmates and my teacher but really what difference does it make??? It is really quite a difficult subject for me to grasp and it's only just now starting to happen but my is it fun! I find myself constantly thinking about chemistry and asking questions like, "Oh i wonder the equation for that is?" Or "I wonder what that would look like under a microscope?" "Why does this happen when these two things are mixed together and what would the moleculer structure be if this was boiled and then cooled?" or even more exciting "I wonder what those to things would do if I mixed them together? Would they explode?" I just heard about a reaction with clorox and brake fluid that creates lots of noxious smoke and can explode supposedly and I REALLY want to try it but I will probably chicken out for fear of damaging myself! I think my teacher will let me use a bunch of different chemicals to grow different crystals which we can then look at under a microscope. She said we could and I hope she really means it because I found some crystal recipies out on the internet that I want to try out. This last week in lab we "grew" these awesome crystals from KNO3 (Potassium salts) and I would have loved to look at them closer but unfortunatly they only grew when the solution was cold and were too fragile to remove from the solution so I had to settle for inspecting them with a little magnifying glass. Oh my I fear I am becoming even more of a science geek than I ever imagained I could be. I find myself drawn to the internet looking of formulas or info about reactions I have heard about or just googling chemistry and seeing what I find. For fun check out these videos of Mentos in Diet Coke. This experiement we did do in class I had the privilage of getting to drop the mentos in the bottles! Great fun. Ours wasn't nearly so elaborate but it was sure fun anyway. Or try your smarts at some of these little chem quizzes.
I have the most incredible teacher, someone I hope to know for a very long time, and my classmates are fabulous. I wouldn't trade my lab partner or any of my classmates who work near us for anything. I am just really starting to get to know them and we sure do cover the ground when it comes to topics and they hardly include chemistry! We have a lot of fun and share a lot of laughs in what could be a very dry and boring place, "The lab". I look forward to class each week and I will so miss these people when I no longer see them twice a week.
Ok enough sentamental rambling...did I mention I love my chem class???