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Article: Amazing Balloon Voyage // South Side Class Project Winds up in Germany
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 8, 1994
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It was three weeks ago that Tiffanie George, 10, let go of a
small green balloon.
She had high hopes for the balloon. So did her classmates at
Price Elementary, 4351 S. Drexel.
But even she was surprised when the postcard came back this
week.
"I guess our balloon went to Europe," she said.
So it did. It went, specifically, to Bergisch-Gladbach,
Germany. This was a record for the school, which likes to send out
balloons as a way of meeting people.
"We've heard back from the Eastern U.S. and Canada but never
anything like this," said Vice Principal Beverly Slater. "Our next
project, of course, is writing back."
How does a party balloon make it to Germany? The scientific ...