Bryton Wilson shows his predictions for 2025 made when he was a student at Mother Teresa School in 2000. (Photo Courtesy Ross Lavigne)

By Chris Brown

Returning envelopes to former students

‘Being a seven-year-old kid you have zero idea’: Mother Teresa School time capsule a fun look back

Dec 10, 2021 | 3:21 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – A time capsule filled at Mother Teresa School in 2000 is sparking memories and providing a few laughs in 2021.

“We had to write out these notes, what we thought things were going to be like in 2025 so obviously being a seven-year-old kid you have zero idea about anything that’s going on,” recalls Bryton Wilson, a Grade 2 student at the time. “I think I put the prime minister is going to be who my best friend was at the time. I had really high aspirations for him.”

The future realtor’s guess of $100,000 for a house was a little off, as were his predictions of being a lawyer and living in Calgary. He also predicted 50 cents for a can of pop and $1 for a hamburger.

“It was kind of funny looking at the numeral amounts and seeing the difference and how little you know as a seven-year-old kid,” he laughs.

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But he was pretty on the mark of cars costing $35,000, and another prediction likely to be right is people not living on the moon in 2025.

His goals were to have a PT Cruiser and a big screen TV. He got the TV.

“Looking back on it, not the most, highest aspirations I guess. But it’s the little things back then,” he said.

With his predictions was a letter from his mother detailing the person she hoped he would become. He calls reading a nice flashback to that time and hopes he did his mother proud.

In the year 2000, David Leahy was the principal at Mother Teresa School. He started the project says well over 100 students and parents took part. School officials have recently been trying to return the envelopes to the students.

“The reactions have been quite interesting. You know, emotional at times because kids are saying ‘oh this is quite something from my parents,” Leahy says. “And also humorous at other times because they’ve looked at some of their predictions or some of the things their parents said they’d be doing 20 years from now or they hoped they’d be doing. And some of them came true and some of them of course were, were way off.”

The school hasn’t been able to reach all students who participated. Anyone who was a student there in 2000 is encouraged to call the school at 403-529-2000 to find out if they have an envelope waiting for them.