Stephanie`s Time Capsule Diary Project

Significant millennium moment
 

It was a couple days before the new millennium,when I started wondering about what my future would be like. I knew that many things we had in the past years we would still have today,but yet so many other things that people have loved so much are just going to disappear.
Then later I realized that that's what the future is. The future is not a place,it's a moment in time. The future is the beginning and an end,but if you think about it long enough there is no end,it's just a beginning for everything.
But on the night of new years eve I did pretty much nothing at all. All I pretty much did was talk on the phone with some friends. I spent new years eve with my younger brother and a cousin my age. They amused themselves by playing on the nintendo 64.
That night I was pretty much thinking about if the Y2K bug was a myth or not. It clearly wasn't what they were saying it was. I guess it really was myth.To tell you the truth I seriously thought that the world was really going to end. I don't know why I had these horrible feelings but I did.
When I finally figured out that the world wasn't going to end when it was about 11:50pm. The first thing I saw in the year 2000 was a clear view of Lion Mountain with a light snow falling and the moon shining from high above me across the country side.

 

3 days to see

During my last three days of sight I would think about all the things I would want to do and see. What would you do if you found out you only had three more days to see, then for the rest of your life you have to live in the dark? This is what I would do:
On the first day of my last three days of sight I would wake up early in the morning and probably feel depressed because I would be loosing my sight fr good. Well that's until I watch the very colourful glow of the sun rising from the east, then my spirit would lift to a happy feeling throughout my body and mind.
I would start the day off right with a healthy and a high energy breakfast to keep me going through the whole day and I would pack a lunch and some climbing gear and go hiking up a huge mountain right to the peek. At the top I would like to see the sun beams beating on a small village down deep in the valley below me.
I would stand on the peek of this mountain and I would realize that this would be my last time to see this extraordinary view. I would never be able to see this ever again.
On the way back down I would listen for the birds and try to spot them on the branches high above me, I would sit and have lunch while admiring how a stream of water so beautiful can go on for miles and miles,watch how the wind blows through the branches of the trees and wonder why, even with with our eye sight,we can't seem to see wind and the very air we breath.
In the afternoon I would go to Venice, Italy and I would go to Rome and visit the Vatican city,the coliseum and the Roman Empire. I would definitely try to go and meet the pope. Then after a long,long day I'd go spend the night in a wonderful hotel in one of there finest sweets.
 

On the second day of my last three days of sight I'd go to Fiji Islands and walk along the the beautiful white sand beach and look out into the the clear waters of the Pacific ocean. I'd go rent some scuba gear and go scuba diving to see there beautiful coral reefs off the coast of Fiji Islands. After a long morning of divingI would sit on the beach and check out all the "HOT" men and maybe get to know some of them,And of course I would get a nice brown tan that I wouldn't be able to see. I would take pictures of the mind so I can remember all the wonderful thing I would see.
After I spent part of the day wondering around though Fiji I would take then next flight back home and take a long walk around my house and property and really study it. I would probably move some things around so when I do lose my eye sight I won't trip over anything.
I would call all of my family and friends to invite them over the next day. After that would be scheduled I would sit down on the roof and watch the sun set with all the colours you can possibly think of like a nice colour of pink,purple,blue,orange,red and yellow. As the colours fill the sky I would try not to cry, as I would be thinking of nothing other than the fact that I wouldn't be able to see this any more.
I would look through the daily newspaper and try to find a good time to see a film, or some sort of entertainment. After a night of entertainment I would go home and take a nice hot shower and start cooking for the big day ahead of me.
I would be in bed around Midnight, as I look through my window into the darkness of the night I would try to find all the constellations that I've never been able to find to find or see. And maybe I might be able comet to name as my own
As I lay awake I'd be thinking about how I would deal with my blindness. And then I would remember my nanny saying" one day at a time"

My last and final day is here, I'd say to myself. Thinking of only the fact that in less than 24 hours left to see.
"Get up", I'd say to myself "your guests should almost be here". Still thinking of what total darkness would be like I would get up, get dressed. In under 10 minutes I would have guests in my living room. it would be my best friends standing there as happy as can be, except for the pity and sadness in their eyes as they look at me.
In less than an hour my house would be filled with overwhelming happiness with again pity and sadness for me. I would be very happy that they came to comfort me in my time of need. I would almost forget about the fact that I would be loosing my eye sight.
Forgetting about my soon to be blindness I would carefully examine my close friends and family to keep their faces in my mind at all times. But the time I would be done people had started to leave. I had just enough time to talk to everybody in the house. I would almost be glad that they were leaving because I would be too tired from the past three days, I would just want some time to think about how I am going to adapt to all the new changes in my life.
I guess that I would be starting to get tired, so I would go to bed, but before I do I would say a little prayer thins is what I would say. Dear lord I know that I am about to lose my eye sight for good I was just thinking about how many miracle you perform on other people so I was just wondering if you could possibly give me back my eye sigh after awhile. But i'll understand if you won't. Thank you lord. Amen.
I would wake up the next morning and I would notice that I am now living in complete darkness. It was as if I was living during the night when it's dark and I sleep during the day. I would really be weird. But I guess that I would have to get used to it.
Huh!! to think that it might actually happen to you and I some day. For most of us it won't but for all of us we might not wake up the next morning. But that's life.
If I were blind I would be saying to you to not take eye sight for granite. But I am not and you probably won't listen until it happens to you, and you'll try to tell people the same and they won't listen to you either.
I am just happy that I have the privilege of seeing. Just remember this one saying" You miss things more after they are already gone"
Just think of that before you through something away. In other words enjoy your life the way it is.
 
 
 

Events of 1999

During the summer I experienced many things that changed me. I traveled to the East coast of Canada. I flew down to Moncton New Brunswick to visit some family. I flew down by myself. While in New Brunswick we went to many places, we went to Riverview New Brunswick where I stayed, Charlotte town, Prince Edward Island and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On July 22nd my parents brought me to the airport so I would catch my flight to New Brunswick. The flight took about 11/2 hours. My cousin picked me up at the airport and brought me home to their house. At the time I didn't realize that this two week trip would change my life.
I was already really exited to be in a totally different province of Canada. I never thought that I would be flying there for two weeks by myself. I couldn't help my self but ask what it was like there.
By the time we go to the house it was about a half hour after I got of the plane. They have this wonderful cozy home in a small development. I was already having a lot of fun with the children. I didn't feel like I had gone anywhere, they made me feel as if I were at home.
A couple a days had already passed and we were on our way to Halifax, New Brunswick with one of my cousins friend. She had booked a hotel for us to stay in. We were going to go to the beach but it wasn't to nice out so we just went down to the pool. We had so much fun at the pool. It was very small but they had this huge water slide. I enjoyed myself a lot.
Then at the very end of my trip we went to Prine Edward Island. I was so happy. I really wanted to see the Confederation bridge. I was so happy I started taking pictures from the van. It was so long. I thought it would never end.
By the time we got of the bridge we had decided that we were going to Charlotte town. So we did. To tell you the truth I thought that we were on Mars. I had forgotten that on Prince Edward Island the soil was red. I was so cool.
We went to a water park called Rainbow Valley. It was so much fun. I can tell you one thing, and that's that I would love to go back. But we went in the afternoon so we didn't get too much time to do everything.
These things are all the things that changed me in the year 1999. I wish that I can experience every single one of them again. I can't wait until I go back.