In 1998, Makenzie was challenged by her teacher at her school in Ontario to write a letter, put it in a bottle and throw it into the water.
After 26 years, the woman had already forgotten about the project, until her own daughter read the words she had written when she was in the 4th year of Esvola Básica de St. John the Catholic Baptist.
All of this was possible after a boy went for a walk with his grandmother, and found the bottle, which was thrown by the force of the water, that day.
The letter was signed and the grandmother found it curious that the letter had been written by a student who attended the same school as her grandson. Thinking it had been written just a year or two ago, he decided to go to the educational establishment to deliver it and, out of curiosity, try to understand who its author was.
The letter was read by a student, during a class, who, when she reached the end of the text, was left open-mouthed by the person who signed it: it was her mother.
Years later, Makenzie Morris laughs at the fact that the letter was found in precisely the same place where she left it. “I didn’t put much effort into launching it”, he says, adding that he has good memories of this task and that he remembers it well, as it was the first time he did a school project using a computer.
The professor responsible for the project, interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was moved to realize that his work remains alive so many years later. The challenge in question was inspired by the classic children’s book ‘Paddle to the Sea’, and the man’s class was instructed to write a short paper about the Great Lakes.
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