A/N: This is a science prodject I had to do over Earth's layers (because I totally didn't learn those in first grade). Anyways, this isn't my best work because it's science and I got bored, but here it is. 

I’m Pitohui, a thirteen-year-old prodigy. I’m supposedly a genius, but I don’t think I am, what genius would agree to go on the “field trip” I’m going on, let alone volunteer? I guess I should tell you about this trip, but to do that, I have to start from the beginning.

Mr. West is the science teacher at a my school, A.G.C. a school for special students. He had been working on something for weeks now, but no one seemed to know exactly what it was. He told my class that he’d show us today, so I’m obviously a little nervous, nothing he invents can be good news. Here is the conversation we had before the trip.

“Come on,” Mr. West excitedly said as the class walked in. “I’m going to show you what I’ve been working on.”

Since my school is extremely difficult to get into, there are only five students, including myself, in each class, meaning there are a total of twenty-five students in my grade. We all use aliases as part of our special education. Mine is obviously Pitohui, the other students are Torchwood; Kid Flash Child, KFC for short; Sergeant America, or Serg; and M-n-mily.

Mr. West pulled a sheet off the large object we’d gathered around, revealing what looked like a submarine fused with a tank. Connected to the front was an enormous drill.

“What is that?” Torchwood questioned.

“It’s a drill,” Mr. West replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

“But what is it for?” M-n-mily questioned.

“Why does it look like something that belongs in a Danimals Kabobble commercial?” KFC interrupted before Mr. West could answer.

This caused him to chuckle, “It’s made for extreme temperatures and terrain. It’s made this way because we’re going on a field trip.”

This caused Serg to perk up. “Really? Where are we going?” She asked.

Mr. West grinned before replying, “The center of the Earth.”

We had two choices of crusts to drill through, the continental crust and the oceanic crust. We chose the oceanic crust because it would be a shorter trip. There are deep rifts around the mid-ocean ridges in the oceanic crust, they can be very deep and decrease the amount of drilling we had to do. The center of the Earth is about four-thousand miles deep, going through the ocean would take about six and eight tenths of a mile off of the trip opposed to none if we went through the continental crust. The oceanic crust is thinner than the continental crust, so it wouldn’t take as long to reach the mantle. Knowing all of this, the trip through the oceanic crust went exactly how I expected it to.

After the quick trip through the crust, we reached the mantle. The first part was the lithosphere, which was just solid. I almost didn’t notice we’d gone through the oceanic crust to it. The asthenosphere semifluid, definitely less rigid than the layers above it. The mantle was a little more solid than the asthenosphere. The entire mantle was pretty hot, but that’s what the drill was made for, so we were all just fine.

We reached the core next. The outer core was liquid. The most impressive part of it being liquid was that it’s made of metal. The inner core was incredibly dense, though it was the hottest part of the Earth. This is due to the fact that it is under extreme pressure. The inside of the drill got pretty hot, but seemed to be holding up since we weren't fried alive.

The trip to the center of the Earth took about a week, meaning it took a week to get back home. I ended up getting bored on the way back home because I’d already seen everything. That’s really the only reason I regretted going on the “field trip,” I did enjoy hanging out with the other girls, and Mr. West is officially my favorite teacher. Luckily I did get a lot of extra credit, and I was excused from doing the science project over Earth’s layers.