So I'm sure most of you know about YA Highway and the cool stuff that gets posted over there. I'm especially fond of Field Trip Fridays and the This Week in Random section.
I always glance over there on Wednesdays and read their prompt and think, "hmm, I should do this, that would be a good idea." And then I never do.
But yesterday, when I saw that the prompt was "If you could travel back to any historical era for research purposes, which would you choose?", I said "OH MY GOD I HAVE TO DO THIS."
And then I promptly fell asleep. For the entire afternoon. (Which was great, but did not leave time for blogging.)
But because I am a history dork, I'm going to post this anyway.
What I *should* say is that I'd like to go to Paris right before the Revolution. It would help if this time-traveling involved instant translation (can I go with the Doctor? Pretty please?) so I could wander around and see what life was like in the months before the Bastille fell. I mean, I know generally - no one had enough to eat, etc etc. But how much did the common Parisian girl know about what was going on with the Estates General? How much did she care?
And while that would be the most useful instance of time travel, it wouldn't be my first choice. My abiding obsession... ahem, I mean love, of the Victorian Era would come in first. After all, in my English class junior year, when we were playing the "what time period do you want to be from?" game and everyone was saying the 60s or the 80s, my entire class turned to me and dubbed me reincarnated from Victorian nobility. I don't think I'd want to stay long - maybe about a monthlong holiday, long enough to have fun in period clothes and dancing with gentlemen who can actually dance and such, but not long enough to get bored of making calls every morning.
Seriously, once time travel is invented, someone is going to make a fortune catering historical vacations. I know I'd be first on line.
So... can I go now? Bustles and dance cards? Please?
How about you guys?
Hmm...tough question. does it have to be the past? haha. honestly, i would love love love to take a trip to the future. like 3, 4, or 5 hundred years from now. maybe even longer. would absolutely love to see the new inventions, how the world is, how people are dressing and doing their hair and what kinds of jobs people have. would love to see where space travel development has gone and see if living in space stations will ever become a reality. if it has to be the past, i guess i would want to go back to the 40's or 50's. Loved the styles back then. The cars, the poodle skirts. Hmm...kinda funny, but with my two wishes, I think I've just basically explained the movie Back to the future LOL Oye. I also would love the 60's. Love the hippie era. Peace, drugs and making love. How could you go wrong with that :-)
ReplyDeleteGood choice! Pre-Revolutionary Paris would be incredible, especially to see if the Revolution was totally necessary. Maybe you could coerce them into staying put? LOL.
ReplyDeleteI put my choice as Woodstock, 1969, but if I had a second choice, it would be Rome under Augustus. Talk about monumental! :D
oh caitlin, I love you.
ReplyDeleteJust remember to take me along with you to france and victorian times and I WOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS if time travel was invented.
I would go everywhere.