Time Capsule Discovery!

I’m currently in process of moving house, my parents are moving and as an unemployed ex-student I’m going with them.  This is going to be a tough time as I’ve lived here my whole life. My rooms almost packed and in the process I’ve come across some lovely memories and hilarious mementoes of my life. 

One of the things I found was a letter from my Gran.  We did a time capsule project at school when I was 12 and had to ask a relative to write a letter predicting what we would be doing in 6 years, not to be opened until we were 18. 

Here’s my Grans Predictions (some of them not far off!)

17/06/2003

Dear Lily,

You are now eighteen and these predictions I made for your six years ago.

You will have now decided which University you would like to go to. You will have gained the highest grades in your music, and play regularly in an orchestra.

You have a boyfriend also in the Orchestra, but have no intentions of getting married until you have finished your education and had a chance to see something of the world. Maybe playing in an orchestra abroad, Vienna perhaps.

I hope you will continue with your music, you have been so lucky to have had such opportunities to study it. It is something you will always be able to use to your advantage, either for pleasure or to earn your living with.

I think teaching will be another career you have considered.

Infants and Juniors so you will teach a variety of subjects.

I am sure you will be successful in whatever you decide to do.

All my best wishes for your future,

From Granny.

She was not far off, and four years after my 18^th Birthday she is still pretty accurate!  I may not have achieved the highest grades possible throughout my education but will graduate in less than a month with a degree I'm proud of and I continue to play regularly in orchestras (although I've never had a boyfriend who's been in the orchestra with me!).  Traveling to Vienna with an orchestra is looking pretty unlikely in my future, however I was lucky enough travel to Germany, France , Edinburgh, Belgium and the USA with music tours!  I love her determination that I won’t marry until I’ve seen the world, my cousin who is a pilot has definitely managed to see more of it than me so far though.  I will definitely be continuing with my music, and for her to see this in me when I was 12 makes me confident it was the right path for me, whether it ends up as my hobbie or career.  Her teaching prediction is also accurate, I teach privately and have considered going into schools, however teaching a variety of subjects to primary school children isn't really for me. 

I’m tempted to ask her to write me another letter for me to open when I’m 30, and see whether these predictions are so accurate.