She found a letter in a bottle thrown into the sea 25 years ago - and the person who wrote it
A Norwegian woman found a letter in a bottle written by an 8-year-old girl from Scotland 25 years ago.
She located her on Facebook and wrote her a message, which surprisingly arrived almost two years late.
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20/02/2022
Sunday, 20 February 2022, 00:07
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Did you do that too when you were kids?
Did you write a letter, put it in a bottle and throw it into the open sea in the hope that someone on the other side of the world would accept it and contact you in a more up-to-date way like an email or Instagram?
In most cases the bottles we threw away were just added to the marine litter and forgotten from our memory.
In the case of an innocent girl from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the message in the bottle did manage to reach a safe haven in Norway and into the hands of a human response - 25 years late.
As part of a school project, Joanna Buchan, who was 8 in 1996, threw a fishing boat containing a letter to the North Sea, near Peterhead.
A quarter of a century later, this bottle was washed ashore, almost 800 miles away, in Gusvar in northern Norway.
Elena Andersen Haga found the bottle containing the letter written by the schoolgirl.
She read Joanna's letter and used a more recent way, namely Facebook, to locate her.
She quickly found out that 34-year-old Joanna now lives in Australia - and sent her a message.
Surprisingly, she sent the message in 2020 and only now received a response, two years later.
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And this is what the correspondence between Elena and Joanna looked like:
In a conversation with the BBC, Joanna said: "She sent me a photo of the letter and I said to myself 'this is my manuscript' and then when I read it I almost laughed."
Elena recounted how she came across a bottle on the small Norwegian island: "We went for a nice walk and found this green bottle. It didn't look very old, but I could immediately see there was something inside. We could read that the letter came from Scotland so it was pretty cool."
This is the distance he has traveled in 25 years:
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Elena said she found the letter in the summer of 2020 and sent a membership request to Joanna on Facebook - but she did not see her until recently.
Yes, it turns out that even on social media it takes time for messages to reach.
Elena recalled: "It was the summer of 2020. I sent a Facebook account request to Joanna that summer and she did not see it until yesterday, so that's also an amusing part of the story."
Joanna said she had a vague memory about the contents of the letter and after reading it she wrote: "The part that killed me was its end. By the way, even today I hate boys."
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