BFA Fairfax

Halloween
Mellie Holzscheiter

My friend Paige is a true friend because she is always there for me whenever something happens. Paige gives me gifts but the best thing Paige has ever given me is her friendship. One Halloween night I just got home from school and my dad and dog were gone. My mom and I raced in the house and we could not find him. In the kitchen window I saw them walking back to the house like nothing happened.

My mom and I knew something happened because our house smelled of rotten eggs. My mom said “It’s propane. My mom said we need to evacuate” and just then my dad got inside, and we were all arguing in the hallway trying to figure out for sure what the smell was. We knew it was propane and we went outside. We put my dog Hunter in our SUV and our Dog Xorah in our pickup truck.

True Friends
By: Lindsay Cary

When I was nine, I discovered how exciting it was to call in my first tom or jake turkey. It was my first year turkey hunting and I was lugging around an old antique twenty-gauge shotgun. My dad set up our ground blind a week before youth turkey season on our own property in Fairfield. We drove up the foggy, dark, twisty road at five fifteen in the morning, tired but pumped because it was my first time hunting other than blasting squirrels in my back yard. We finally turned into a small drive in our sugar woods. I loaded up my gun, and got ready to go.

How I Discovered My Best Friend

By Mikayla St. Germain
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

I discovered my best friend at the Champlain Valley Fair in 2005 with my mom. My mom brought her friend Stefanie who brought a girl named Alexis. We did not talk to each other at the beginning because we didn't know each other. After a while we both asked if we could go on the ride called "The Caterpillar." I thought that it was pretty cool that we both wanted to go on the same ride at the same time. We didn't want to sit with strangers and we didn't want to go by ourselves so we went together. That was the first thing that we realized that was the same about us. After we got off "The Caterpillar" it was like we had known each other for our entire lives. We were talking and laughing and telling funny stories about our parents. It turns out that we were a lot alike and a lot different at the same time. I heard that that is the foundation of a great friendship. We had a blast that day at the fair.

My Go-kart

By Kevin Farmer
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

The first time I rode my go-kart was awesome! I zipped down the driveway swinging the back end around and around, then zipping to the side doing doughnuts. It was wicked! I was roaring around the lawn at 35 miles per hour, spraying up water from the wet lawn. It was exhilarating. For days afterward all I wanted to do was ride the go-kart. When we ran out of gas we called dad down to fill up the tank. Then it was Ethan's turn to drive. Dad started it and we jumped in and sped away. Wahoo! The word discovery comes to mind when I think about that first moment that I rode my go-kart. I had never ridden a go-kart before and it was fun, new and exciting. When I first rode my go-kart it was a true discovery.

Once when I was at my friend Jeremy's house, we went out into the woods to cut down some trees for his dad. It was my first time cutting down a tree, and we discovered that by having both of us chop on either side of the tree, it makes the work a lot more enjoyable. We also cut much faster this way. In addition, the cutting made a rhythm by which we worked. Every time the first person made a cut, the second person added on, and then the first person would hit the wood in time to the second person's chop. That was the first time I ever cut down a tree. The feeling of seeing the big tree fall after working so long brought us both immense satisfaction in the work. We couldn't wait to start on the next one.

Only Yesterday

By Ryan Wimble
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

It feels like it was only yesterday everything was perfect then Bang!
Everyone has a girlfriend or a boyfriend Bang!
Everyone hates you Bang!
You’re the most unpopular kid in the school Bang!
You wish you were a kid again when everyone was kind and respected you Bang!

The other side of me

Puppy.
I am a puppy

I sleep and play

The thing I love the most,

Is being with my friends

When I see some one new

I want to meet them

I can be sloppy and get off track easily

I love being with kids

Being around others and joining

Their friendship is just me.

I can be different or normal

Out of my month there could be shouting

I love dancing,
Moving to the beat but
At the same time I’m
Expressing my feelings.
Soccer,
I pass to one of the wings
And then break forward.
Softball,
Crack the sound of the ball
after it has hit by the bat.
Basketball,
Dribble, dribble I pass
to one of the forwards
and then look for an open pass,
shoot, score and the crowd goes wild.
Skating,
I glide on the ice through

I “love”

By Brandon Whitehall
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

I love the sound of video games crashing, burning, and shooting
I love the taste of food melting on my tongue
I love the click, click, click sound that my bike makes as I petal along
I love camping, hearing the sounds of nature and my TV at the end of my bunk in my camper

Winter's Song

By Emma Collins
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

The wind howls with raging torment as it makes snow fly upon command.

Then it falls into a peaceful slumber after the job is done
and the world is smeared in its own white paint.

But as soon as a single child steps onto its masterpiece, the wind whips in warning, telling the child to go no further.

Fear the Unknown

By Monica Allard
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

How I've Changed

By Meghan Bochanski
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

Once I felt young and vulnerable
But now I feel strong and confident
Once I thought I had to be perfect
But now I like who I am
Once I couldn’t read or write
But now it’s second nature
Once I was a shadow
But now I am noticed
Once I tired to please everyone
But now I am just myself
And now I just try my hardest

The Best Pet Ever

By Morgan Lovell
BFA Fairfax, Grade 7

The best pet I ever had was a German Shepherd, Collie mix. We got him and a cat with a house we bought in Iowa. When we got him he was 11 years old, fat, and had teeth the color of ear wax. He obviously had had way too many doggy treats! Turns out the previous owners had fed him a lot of hot dogs.