Adventures, Mysteries, Knowledge
By William Molleur
Fire-breathing dragons, detectives solving crimes, planets and asteroids. They are all around me, calling my name. I reach out and grab one. Slowly I sink down into the oversized beanbag, the bag surrounding me like an envelope. I check out the cover and crack it open. Minutes fly by, then hours. I am happy, excited, and even scared at times. Learning and experiencing all the time. Uncomfortable I shift positions being careful not to lose sight of the dragon. You have probably figured out that I am in my happy place, a place where I belong. Rows and rows of ten foot tall wooden cases holding all of the treasures. Big, small, old, new, it doesn’t matter to me, I love them all. Just as a rabbit loves carrots, I love books. A library is the place where I belong. Libraries hold the answers to my unasked questions and offer me the chance to slay dragons, travel to a new country, and to solve mysteries.
Where I Belong
By Ethan Aubuchon
I feel like I belong in a space with shelves full of art tools. Glue, tape, paint, paintbrushes and many, many more delicate tools resting on long, peacock blue shelves. Art is my passion. I will have rulers, scissors, markers, oil and chalk pastels. Someday I will make many pop-out things. Folding, cutting, coloring, smudging. I will make expensive, big drawings and paintings.By Ethan Aubuchon
I will write wonderfully detailed stories. Some about nature, how frogs make music, crickets chirp, how woodpeckers tap the wood. It all sounds like one big voice of the world. Some would be about how fairies change seasons and how they work hard to do it all in time. How everything works in our system. I will make books to help kids learn. I will do this with peaceful, quiet music on. I will write chapter books, small books, and very long detailed books. I will need to go to college and do many big jobs in my life to earn the money to buy all the art materials and what I need to build my place. That’s why I want to be an artist and creator.
In The Wild Blue Yonder
By Alex Schaefer
I feel the place where I belong is in school. Getting an education is important in order for me to reach my goal of being where I feel I belong in the future. I feel comfortable in school. I get to challenge myself as well as get challenged by those around me. My teacher challenges me, especially in math. I love math and doing my best at it will make me a better scientist in the future. When my classmates do well it challenges me to do better, too. I challenge myself by setting goals and working hard to reach them. Challenging myself and being challenged will help me to reach my ultimate goal, becoming a scientist.By Alex Schaefer
I know I want to be a scientist, one that flies into space to complete experiments which will help make the world a better place. I want to develop a land rover that will conduct experiments on other planets. It would be awesome to be part of a team that discovered that we could live on another planet. You never know until you try, that’s what I’m going to do, because that’s where I belong.
Doing a Rescue
By Amber Rawson
Horses, cows, puppies, cats. These animals would make the place where I belong feel like some place special. I feel I belong on a farm. My farm wouldn’t be an ordinary farm, it would be a place for me to keep the animals I rescue, those nobody wants.By Amber Rawson
I know it will take lots of hard work. I want to be a veterinarian so that I can keep the animals healthy. I would also need to learn about farming and training horses. I would train the horses so a family could adopt them and give them love. I wouldn’t let the animals go to people that are mean.
I know that I am just eight but when I’m 26 I’m going to have my vet degree and my farm. It will be hard work, but I’m ready for it. I will have to go to school to become a vet. While I’m in school I can take lessons on how to be a horse trainer, too.
I can’t wait to begin to save the animals of the world. On the farm is where I belong.