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Message to the Past by TEA

March 5th, 2008 6:50 PM / Location: 37.999918,-122.0294

INSTRUCTIONS: Deliver a message to the past. Make sure it arrives.

"You can't escape from your past"


I guess those who say that are right. Even though I promised many a teacher I would visit them, after I left 5th grade I never returned to my elementary school. I wanted to put that section of my life behind me. At Sun Terrace Elementary School, I was nothing but this foreign little girl with an accent who wasn't good for much besides copying your math homework from.


But did I really escape my past? Probably not. I mean, I even wrote about elementary school tortures as a college-entrance essay. It's also been the subject of enough artwork, drawings, and blog entries, so I guess I never really did.

When I saw this task, I knew that I wasn't going to visit some generic past. I had to visit mine...then I could really put it behind me.


I decided to write this letter from MY present, TO my past, and I will leave the letter at the elementary school (my past) for some 8 year old to find (his/her present, my past). He'll read the letter (my present, his/her future) and hopefully be happier for it.



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Paper Provider

Paper Provider

So to write a letter, I needed paper. What would be more suited for the task than a random notebook I once found that actually belonged to a real life elementary school kid (her name's mary, as you can see). I took paper from here.


The Letter: Click it to read it.

The Letter: Click it to read it.

Then I carefully composed my letter, actually rewriting it three times in order to make sure it was all in clear, concise, kid-speak. I hope I'm helpful to the kid. These are all things that 8 year old Tea could've really used. You know, just someone to tell me I was great..someone who could negate what anyone else said that was bad, simply because they were out of this world, and therefore mightier.


Zwoomphf!

Zwoomphf!

Then I time-warped to the past. This is what I look like when I time travel. If you tried, you'd look like this, too.


The Past

The Past

I visited the school and planted the letter underneath/inside that dinosaur. I used to hang out there.


Mysterious Message

Mysterious Message

Tape wouldn't stick so I just placed it in the tanbark.


Good bye

Good bye

Then I drove away, back to the future.



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posted by Tricia Tanaka on March 5th, 2008 8:06 PM

Love the time warp video!

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posted by .thatskarobot on March 5th, 2008 9:24 PM

Cool letter.

Can't wait for a kid to find it and give it to his parents/teachers, and then they're going to be watching the play ground for creepy stalkers. lol

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posted by TEA on March 5th, 2008 9:38 PM

It probably didn't help that I drove slowly by the school ...I only did that because I was hoping there wouldn't be kids, but they were still playing. I hope no one thought I was out to molest their child..however I look like a fairly innocuous young female. People never suspect the young teenaged girls as molesters.

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posted by miss understanding on March 5th, 2008 9:44 PM

I am glad I know what time travel looks like now.

This is great. I wish I would have found a letter like that when I was 8.

It would be cool to leave the sweet video there too, somehow
posted by susy derkins on March 5th, 2008 9:51 PM

Underneath/inside that dinosaur, where else? :)

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posted by TEA on March 6th, 2008 3:22 PM

Underneath IS inside the dinosaur (it's like a cave!). Or are you asking where did I hang out when I was in elementary school? Sometimes I would be in the library or in the grass, or drifting along all the other kids on the bars.

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posted by Minch on March 16th, 2008 9:51 PM

this is phenomenal!

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posted by Kassitastrophe on March 20th, 2008 8:17 AM

That is the sweetest letter ever.

Amazing job.

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posted by Rather Dashing on April 25th, 2008 11:37 PM

the letter, the warpage, the letter...

simply wonderful.