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Around the world in 21 years

It started out as a lesson on oceans, and 21 years later, a message in a bottle has made waves (groan). BoardBuzz saw this story on ABCNews.com, and was fascinated. When Emily Hwaung was in fourth grade she placed a message in a bottle, as a part of a school project, and cast it off to sea. The note read:

This letter is part of our science project to study oceans and learn about people in distant lands. Please send the date and location of the bottle with your address. I will send you my picture and tell you when and where the bottle was placed in the ocean. Your friend, Emily Hwaung

And here we are some 21 years later. The letter, which was launched from a suburb of Seattle, was discovered more than 1,700 miles away in Alaska. Emily, no longer a fourth grader, but a 30 year-old accountant, has really gotten "a kick out of" the story and the bottle resurfacing all these years later. BoardBuzz wonders if that model of the solar system we did in fourth grade will find us again somehow.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).