Hannah's Random Thoughts #17: The Past

Sometimes, when I read or watch something from another time period or a different place, I think about how awesome it would be to live in those times.

I read books or see scenes of farmlands and I think, gosh, seems so rewarding to be a farmer! Then I read a little bit more about the Dust Bowl and I feel the need to change my shirt of something because all I've been reading about is dust and dirt and grime and I suddenly feel like I'm just as covered in dust as the people in the story.

Then I watch good, lovely shows like Downton Abbey (Oh.... Downton Abbey....) and I think YES! I DO want to be in that time period! Such good clothes, so fashionable! What lovely accents and manners and ways of life! And, while the war certainly did change a lot of things around Downton, it still seems like such good place to live. It seems so fun. Wouldn't it be wonderful?

I wonder (and I'm sure it's true) that people, from whatever time period, feel like they'd rather be born in another time or place. I mean, think of how many people have thought about time travel. Not me. I don't want to time travel. Especially not in the future. But, yes, going to the past probably would be fun. I wouldn't really want to travel to the future. It would probably scare me. But the past! Now, that would be an adventure.

I bet probably lots of people for all sorts of time think they would rather live in the past.  But if you think about it, if we all lived in the past.... well I'm sure some time periods would be more populated than others. Like, not many people would want to go to the Middle Ages. At least I wouldn't, but maybe some Middle Ages historian can see past the bubonic plague. I think the Twenties would be fun (that's the Downton part of me talkin').

I guess nobody can go back into the past. But we can read books about it, or from it, or watch movies. Like it or not, I guess that's as close as we'll get. I sort of like it. All the comforts of home and still, able to sort of experience whole eras and places!

Hannah's Random Thoughts #11: hee hee

Funny story:

The other day, (actually it was more like several weeks ago), Sarah and I were at school and we were walking down the hall and there was some guy a little ahead of us. He had sort of a big baggy sweatshirt on (you know the type) and obviously a little too big of a shirt because his shirt stuck out from under the sweatshirt just a wee bit.

Sarah kind of laughed a bit and whispered to me "Tuck in your tail, little duck" , and we both quietly stifled our laughter. (That quote is from the Hunger Games. And this certain young man did not seem at all like a "little duck")

I meant to write this a long time ago but anyways there ya go.  

Hannah's Random Thoughts #5: Textbooks

As I was reading my chapter for AP US history, I was thinking.... What if the school gave out DVDs of textbooks, and a nice voice read out all of the text (maybe in a British accent!! I find reading in Professor Snape's voice helps me memorize) as the screen showed accompanying images or maybe the text also on screen. 

Then it wouldn't take as long to read and then copy down, you can copy down as you listen! And then at the end of each chapter it ran over the highlights again. It *would* be more difficult to study at school due to less access to a tv, etc, but along with the normal textbook it might be helpful.

 I don't know. Just some genius I thought of as I was doing my homework.

Hannah's Random Thoughts #1: Harry Potter

So the other day I was thinking about all the Harry Potter pins on Pinterest that say "we are the potter generation" and how it's kinda cheesy but true, and then I was thinking how what if schools 50 years from now read that book for some project but it's considered like a fiction classic or something awesome, and if the kids will like it or hate it because they have to read it.

 And then what if years from now people from nowadays will always say quotes from Harry Potter, and then what if they become as things that we say all the time like "out of the frying pan, into the fire" but instead we would say things like, "you're going to get yourselves killed, or worse, expelled!" When our kids do something foolish. And we'll try to say it in a Hermione voice but it just won't be the same. And then overtime people will be like "what's that from?" And then I'll say, "THAT'S FROM HARRY POTTER!!!" 

And then we'll have some great conversation and then we will watch them or read them again and the magic will live on.....