Jan puts her time capsule(胶囊) inside a plastic bag and takes it into the garden. She looks up at the night sky and tries to see the sbut the clouds and the light pollution(污染）from the town make it impossible. So she watches a plane fly past to Apsworth airport.
She makes a hin the ground beside the apple tree and puts the time capsule inside. Then she ccovers the hole and looks around her to check that no one is watching her. The location of the time capsule is a s. Don't tell anyone.
Jan can see the apple tree from her bedroom window and half an hour later she's looking out of her window down at the tree and the place where she lthe time capsule. She tries to imagine(想像) the scene in the future. "I wonder who's going to find my time capsule," she thinks. "I wonder wis going to be here in the future. A shopping centre? A new university? Probably a new runway for the airport," she thinks as aplane flies past.
She goes to bed and dreams of the future. In the future Jan's house is in the middle of a big city. There are lots of tall buildings fof lights. It's night but there's light and colour everywhere.
The next morning, Jan wakes up five minutes before the alarm clock rings. She remembers her d.
"The future is an exciting place," she thinks as she gets out of bed and looks out the window. The tree is still there. The other houses are still there. She isn't in the future. She's in the pand it's time to get ready for school.
—Taken from The Time Capsule
