Message to the Past by TEA
March 5th, 2008 6:50 PM / Location: 37.999918,-122.0294I 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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- Lincøln
- Tricia Tanaka
- .thatskarobot
- miss understanding
- susy derkins
- KC
- anna one
- Malaysian Eddy
- Jellybean of Thark
- Optical Dave
- The Duchess
- William Vervalsing
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- Sean Mahan
- Robert Burt
- Vena Nightmare
- Minch
- Not Here No More
- Morrighan
- Kassitastrophe
- Julian Muffinbot
- auntie matter
- something something
- no
- lara black
- Rather Dashing
- Figment Lattery
- Rainy
- Beta Orionis
- Super Fly
- heather galaxy
- Pip Estrelle
- Ben Whitehouse
- Ben Yamiin
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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
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.
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.
Underneath/inside that dinosaur, where else? :)
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.
That is the sweetest letter ever.
Amazing job.
the letter, the warpage, the letter...
simply wonderful.
Love the time warp video!