(Hold onto your seat for this one.) Apparently, two years ago, a fifth grade class sent message-filled bottles into the ocean. They had hoped that somebody would find at least one of those bottles, read the message, and respond. On December 18, 2005 that very event happened... when a man picked up a bottle 3,500 miles away.
On November 20, 2003 a group of fifth-graders from Brickett Elementary launched their bottles from the coast near their home town- Lynn, Massachusetts. Each student had written a message containing the address to their school along with their own name and placed it in a plastic soda bottle. Genevive Hernandez, now a seventh-grader, had used a green Sprite bottle and had figured nothing would happen with her message because, as luck would have it, her bottle was stuck in the seaweed on that stormy November day. Genevive's thoughts were confirmed as one by one 14 students received replies. The majority of those replies come from the nearby area of Cape Cod, but one came all the way from England.
When Hernandez received a letter postmarked from Africa more than two years later, she was ecstatic to find that her bottle really had gone somewhere and shocked that it traveled all the way to Africa. It had, in fact, traveled the longest out of all her schoolmates. An African man by the name of Assila Ahmed had apparently found the bottle on December 18, 2005 on the shorelines of Morocco
and responded with haste. Amazing!
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