Five to Ten Years

One thing I was able to accomplish a good portion of this summer was knocking some more items off the 101 List. One that I was particularly excited about was #21 - make a time capsule.

I've always wanted to do this, but never got around to it or really set aside the time to put one together. I figured that now would be as good as time as any to finally make my own time capsule, if not better as I am in such a place of transition and change. I started working on it several months ago when I lived at the Floyd House. I found an old metal John Deere popcorn tin in the truck bay at the the office and began to think about what I wanted to put inside and where I could possibly bury it. It took me until the last day of camp, but on July 30th I finally managed to finish, seal, and bury the time capsule.



Digging the Hole



Its contents include:

• Letters from various of my fellow CAP-tives to themselves
• A Harry Potter movie ticket
• A 2011 Camp Shawnee T-Shirt
• A picture of the 2011 Camp Shawnee counselors
• And a few other random assorted things

I sealed all of the contents as best as I could - in multiple layers of Ziplock bags and Tupperware containers and then caulked the seams of the can. I along with some of the last counselors left on the mountain then took it to its resting place and buried it where it shall stay for the next five to ten years. Yes, that's right - five to ten years. I could not decide if I wanted to go for the full ten or succumb to the American part of me that demands instant gratification would be able to make it to five so I've left it open for me to decide at a later point.

The Time Capsule Crew

Camp reunion in 2016 or 2021 anyone?