If I Could Go Back in Time

I recently visited The Friends School in Hobart, Tasmania. While I was there, I gave the year fives a challenge - to write the answer to this question:
If I could go back it time and relive an experience again, what would it be and why?
Here are their intriguiging answers.

I'd go back to the time ... I WOULD GO BACK TO THE TIME …

• I was in Vancouver, looking at an ASTON MARTIN and the man who owned it asked me to sit in it.
• I missed the bus at school. I was only seven or eight, and I forgot to take the bus, thinking that Mum would pick me up. An hour after school had ended, a teacher found me sitting at the gates, waiting. I was terrified. I was also very lucky that she knew my mum’s mobile number. After that had dreams for days, sometimes about mum leaving school without me, and sometimes about large creatures waiting for me at the gates. After that I always remembered to listen to mum… and I NEVER missed the bus.
  
• of the dinosaurs. They are my favourite type of huge animals. They’re awesome. I’m doing a book about three people are going to Africa, but there’s a freak lightning storm and they land on an uncharted island and meet dinosaurs.
  
• my Dad had a serious car crash and I’d stop him! He broke nearly all of his bones, and his lungs. He got his stomach gut open to get metal out. He died several times. I would do it because I love my father and I am lucky he is still alive.
  
• when my parents were together. They spilt up when I was only one or two years old. I can’t remember, but if I went back in age I would appreciate seeing more than just photos.
• when you came in to our school you asked us one question; if we could go back in time and change/do it again what would it be.
• I'd probably go back in time and write all the Elvis Presley songs before he could write them (not that I liked him I'd just like all the money that he earned from it).
• my family went to movie world! We went one a ride called the Wild West Falls. Only my dad and I went on because my little brother was too scared, so mum had to look after him. We got to a really high bit, then it suddenly dropped straight down! It was in the water on a boat so I got REALLY wet. As we went over the edge I would like to freeze frame so I could see what expression I had on my face.
• mine is hard to explain so I’ll tell you the story first. My dad was adopted. All of my family except for me has met them. He has two brothers. One had a mental problem and because his girlfriend broke up with him he was so mad that he shot himself.I would go back in time and stop him from shooting himself.
• I’d give Michael Jackson a high 5 and say not to take drugs and NO PLASTIC surgery.
  
• I broke my arm. You probably think I am crazy, but I liked it because of all the attention I got. I broke my left wrist, and fractured my elbow. It happened in grade 3, 2007. A year 6 was pushing me on the monkey bars,and my hands were slippery, so I fell off. It was also cool because I had laughing gas, but I don't know what is so funny about it.
  
• I watched ‘Bewitched’ the complete seventh Season. I was impatient to get ‘Bewitched’ because I’d been saving up for weeks. We went to Video City but they didn’t have it. So next we went to Big W and we were lucky they had it. When I got home I watched 14 episodes. It was funny.
  
• my family were related to Russian warlords and get a memento.
  
• when my cat (Whiskers) was born and save her brother and sister. When they were born, the brother and sister fell off the high chair.
• I was eight months old and we went to England, France, Italy and Greece, but the problem is that I can’t remember anything at all. I’d make sure that I took a MUCH better memory.
  
• my old cat, Merlin, was alive and I used to do everything with him. My family loved him so much and he was the best cat in the world. Cars used to have to stop for him when he wanted to cross the road, and our house would never have got broken into because he was always on guard. He had to get put down due to a tumour in his leg. We buried him in our front garden where he loved to sleep in the sun.
  
• the school cross country race and overtake my friend at the end of the race. I was right behind him. I could’ve beaten him, but I didn’t. If I had, it could’ve changed my life majorly.
  
• my great granddad was alive. We all called him old fella granddad. I was very small when he died. My sister can remember his face, but I can’t. When I was 0 he was 99 years old and died of cancer in his sleep, so it was very peaceful. I wish I could go back to meet him.

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