Today is the closing day of our international 2016 – 2017 school year project, the Time Capsule Project (2016 – 2026 HUNGARY – POLAND 3 June, 2017)
We registered to join the eTwinning website project in October, 2016. We have done a lot of work since the beginning of the project and also learned a lot. We brainstormed about what we should put in our time capsule, we later voted about it too. There was a contest for the mascot of the project. Three Foundation members sent in their ideas to contribute to the project. Then we got down to serous work and collected newspaper clippings and wrote summaries of the articles in English, we wrote a letter to ourselves 10 years from now, we wrote our predictions for 2026, we collected the greatest hits – Hungarian and international – of 2016, we labelled the pictures of our yearbook in English, we made some videos too. At the same time, we followed the work of the other project partners in Poland, Ukraine and Azerbaijan on the eTwinning project TwinSpace.
Once we had everything put together, we decorated the box for our capsule, waited for the decision about how the partners are paired up and who we have to send our capsule to and who we are getting their capsule from. We got paired up with a grammer school in Mylomlyn, Poland. We sent our capsule to them, they sent theirs to us.
It was exciting to get the Polish Time Capsule and to see what they put in it. We could see some pretty brochures of their town, which is a 680-year-old historical town. They sent some photos too, that the students took themselves. We listened to some Polish pop songs too. It was interesting to hear the Polish language in pop songs, but otherwise, we quite likes them.
Eventually there was one thing left. The ’burial’ of the time capsule. The Polish school had the ceremony last Monday, on 29 May. We saw the video and pictures they made on TwinSpace. We held our burial ceremony today, on 3 June. One last time we took a look at the pictures and other memorabilia in the time capsule, we put everything back inside, then, wearing the Foundation T-shirts and caps, holding colourful balloons, we carried the Polish time capsule out to the front yard of the Nagybajom Csányi Community House and buried it near a bush. We marked its place with Polish and Hungarian flags and two tiles with the date and project name inscripted on them.
Well, what next? Wait for ten years, dig the time capsule out, look at it again, send it back to Poland and then wait for ours to arrive, and that is going to be a most exciting moment when we face a slice of our past, our thoughts and ideas from ten years before and see how well we saw things then, or how far we were from how things happened in our lives and in the world. We can hardly wait…
