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Children’s Connection 2012

Dear Readers:This week, the Reston Connection turns

over its pages to the youth and students.We asked principals and teachers from

area schools to encourage students to con-tribute their words, pictures and photos forour annual Children’s Issue.

The response, as always, was enormous.While we were unable to publish every piecewe received, we did our best to put togethera paper with a fair sampling of the submit-ted stories, poems, drawings, paintings,photographs and other works of art.

We appreciate the extra effort made byschool staff to gather the materials duringtheir busy time leading up to the holidays.We’d also like to encourage both schools andparents to mark their 2013 calendars forearly December, the deadline for submissionsfor next year’s Children’s Connection. Please

keep us in mind as your children continueto create spectacular works of art and inspir-ing pieces of writing in the coming year.

The children’s issue is only a part of ouryear-round commitment to cover educationand our local schools. As always, the Con-nection welcomes letters to the editor, storyideas, calendar listings and notices of localevents from our readers. Photos and othersubmissions about special events at schoolsare especially welcome for our weeklyschools pages.

Our preferred method for material is e-mail, which should be sent [email protected], butyou can reach us by mail at 1606 KingStreet, Alexandria, VA 22314 or call 703-778-9414 with any questions.

Editor Kemal Kurspahic

WelcomeBy Karina Howard,

seventh grade,Langston Hughes

Middle

By Hannah Waller, fifth grade,Terraset Elementary

By Cary Green, second grade, Sunrise Valley Elementary

Aztec SunCollage, byAna Wyatt,third grade,HuntersWoods El-ementarySchool forthe Arts andSciences

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Children’s Connection 2012Artwork fromHunters Woods Elementary

Abstract Flower in Oil Pastel, by ZainabSohail, fourth grade

Abstract Flower in Oil Pastel, by ZainabSohail, fourth grade

By VeronicaWong, fourthgrade

Self Portrait, by Sarmad Kayani, sixthgrade

AbstractFlower, byEmily Song


Best Thing ThatHappened to Me

The best thing that happened to mewas going to Great Wolf Lodge andseeing my Oma there. I even like howmy Mom, Oma, and I went to this slidecalled River Canyon Run. I got to havesome fun at Great Wolf Lodge. It wasspecial because there’s a water parkthere. After a few days there, Oma left.It was an awesome time with Oma onvacation.

—Carlo

Hope to Becomean Ice Skater

My wish is to become a professionalice skater. I hope to have lessons toget better and better and to show myparents what I can do. For ChristmasI hope to get ice skates so I can playwith my friends and teach them howto ice skate too. If I get lessons andwhen I’m old enough I can do perfor-mances for all the world to see! I can’twait to be a professional ice skater!

—Anna/fifth grade

My Best GiftMy best gift is my friendship with

Carlo and his little brother Leo. Mylittle brother Josiah and I meet themat the middle school. We play soccer.We enjoy talking to each other. We alsoplay basketball at the middle school.I get to talk to Carlo at lunch at school.We go to Lego club after school. Weboth have the game Super MarioBrothers two. We talk about the game.I always wanted a friend like Carloand Leo.

—Jordan

My FavoriteAnimal

My favorite animal is a horse. Thisis because I want to be a Steeple Chaserider when I grow up. I would like myown horse. The color of my horse isgoing to be black. The name of myhorse is going to be Annie. The num-ber of my horse is going to be 13. Ilike horses because they are cute. I likehorses because you can ride them. Ilike horses because they are smart. Ilove horses.

—Cora

My Favorite SportI think that soccer is the best sport.

I like soccer because you don’t useyour hands. I like the soccer tricks thatyou can do with your feet. Soccer is aworldwide sport and it means that alot of people like to play and watch it.I like watching a team from Spaincalled FC Barcelona.

—Alejandro

Children’s Connection 2012 Reflections fromTerraset Elementary

Artwork from Terraset Elementary

By Trevor Newman, 11, sixth grade

By Amelia Fricker,11, sixth grade

By Josh Martinez,11, sixth grade

By Dodson Piotowski,11, sixth grade



Just Chillin’,pencil and inkdrawing, by KiraBaugh of Reston,23, eighth graderat LangstonHughes MiddleSchool

Water WashoverBy Tiki Djokic

Aldrin Elementary/sixth grade

Swoosh! Great, I thought, therego the beach chairs. My family leftthem outside after the campfiresing-along last night. The wavesubsided but other ones were ontheir way. Mom, Dad and I werejust having a peaceful day outsidewhen the waves started to getlarger. We ran inside for cover andI stayed to look out the windows,apparently the bravest of thebunch. Then we saw what lookedlike a tsunami.

Every wave that came after thatmade the water level rise rapidly.One wave was so large that it com-pletely smoothed the dry and hillysand right in front of our frontdoor. It washed away all of ourbuckets, pails, shovels and otherbeach supplies. We were left withnothing outside.

“Zoe! Is everything still okayoutside?” asked Mom from thekitchen.

“Uh…well, no. The chairs andtoys are gone!” I replied uneasily,remembering that she asked me totake them in before the wavesstarted.

“Well, come here. Dad and Ineed to talk to you about some-thing important.”

I jogged over to the kitchen, myshort hair bobbing up and down,all the while wondering what hap-pened now.

“Sweetie, we think it may bebest to evacuate the house beforethe waves get too big.” said mydad and looked at Mom.

“Yes, take only your most usefuland important belongings. We’llonly be staying at a hotel untileverything clears up. When thewaves are gone and everything iscalm again,” added Mom.

My stomach started to twist. Ididn’t think this was such a goodidea.

“But Mom, wouldn’t our carhave enough space to hold a bunchof stuff?” I asked.

My dad looked a bit nervous,which I didn’t take as a good sign.

“Well, see, we can’t take the carbecause we’re afraid that if we do,the waves won’t cooperate with us.They’ll come up higher and higherand the car won’t be able to drive.Besides, it’ll take us at least halfan hour to pack and get ready,” heanswered.

Oh no. Not again. We had to fleethis beach house five years agobecause of forecasts of fiercewinds and I still have nightmaresabout it. Last time we evacuated,the winds blew away some of theroof shingles and every last thingwe left outside. This is my home;

I don’t want it to be ruined like agiant foot stepped on it. But thesewere no “fierce winds.” Thesewere enormous waves about toruin my home. Again.

“But Dad, can’t we just wait andsee if anything bad will happen?Then we can be sure as sure toevacuate,” I asked, almost whin-ing.

“No Zoe. That will be too dan-gerous,” he sternly replied.

That’s how I found myself in myroom 30 seconds later with mysuitcase in one hand and my bookin the other. I started looking formy cap when I heard Mom urge,

“Zoe! Finished or not, we’ve gotto go now!”

Luckily, I was almost done andgrabbed my sixth birthday partypicture. I was very small back thenwith no front teeth and two au-burn braids down to my elbows,my green eyes wide with excite-ment. I couldn’t believe that wasonly five years ago. It seemed likejust yesterday with Mom cuttingthe cake and Dad snapping pic-tures. Then it became bad. Thetide became bigger and smallwaves coming closer and closeruntil they were towering monstersright above us. We ran for ourlives, not daring to look behind us.

“Zoe Elizabeth Erdlen! Get outof the house now!” Mom yelledand grabbed my arm, shocking meout of my daze and giving me aheart attack.

As we ran out the front door, Iturned around to see a monstrouswave only three heartbeats behindus. I froze in panic. Dad saw theterror in my eyes and pulled meaway.

Right when we started runningI heard a crash and felt the waverise up to my knees. If this is justgetting started, how will it be infive minutes? I ask myself. I erasedthe image from my mind.

We ran a few more feet when Iheard another crash. This time thewave came up to my waist, com-pletely soaking my shorts and thefive dollars that were in them. Ihardly had time to recover whenyet another wave came. This onemade the others feel like a splashin the kiddie pool. The wavepushed me over, shoving salt wa-ter and sand up my nose andmouth. I had to get up quicklybecause I couldn’t breathe.

When I finally got up, I lookedaround for Mom and Dad. Momwas lying on her stomach cough-ing out water, and Dad was help-ing her up. Both my parents weresoaked, like me. But I didn’t seemy luggage anywhere. I remem-ber letting go of the strap of mysuitcase when the wave toppled

me over, but otherwise, nothing.Then I turned around.

“Oh my gosh! Mom! Dad! Ourstuff washed away!” I screamed.I remember putting the picture ofmy 6th birthday party in my suit-case before leaving my house,therefore lost forever, and I turnedaround to go get it.

Luckily, Dad realized what I wasabout to do. He grabbed me bythe arm and jerked me away.

“No time now, kiddo! We gottakeep going!” he said with equalamounts of urgency and disap-pointment in his voice.

We kept running, while everysecond thinking that another wavewill come and knock us out. Theonly noises we heard were the dis-tant waves crashing to the groundand the foam fizzing as it drewnearer. My pants were drippingwet and clinging onto me like glueon paper. I was also very raven-ous after the hurry.

My family finally got out of thewater’s reach. I was so tired Icould have dropped on the groundand start sleeping right then andthere.

“Ok Team Erdlen,” my dadstarted. “We’re going to find a ho-tel and then I’ll go find some food,if any of the stores are still open.”

I noticed that my dad still hadhis wallet in his pocket, which wasgreat news.

A few hours later I was sittingon my hotel bed reading a maga-zine on sports. We were walkingfor what seemed like ages, but wefound a hotel that looked farenough from the water and re-laxed. It was hard finding aroom, because it looked like thewhole state of Hawaii evacuatedtheir houses and picked this ho-tel. Dad went to the store andbought all of our essential needs.Then we ate pizza and went toour rooms.

Just then my mom came in myroom with some urgent news.

“Zoe, come quick! There’s newson the radio about the tsunami.”

I went to my parents’ room andstarted listening. I could hear veryfew words because of all the static.

“Tsunami … houses flooded …many feared injured … deadlywaters … Hawaiian nightmare …”

Then my dad summarized whatwas said before I came into theroom.

“Now, don’t freak out Zoe. Thepolice officers have checked to seeif everyone is safe. Some housesmay be flooded or ruined. I can’tsay our house isn’t one of them.Let’s hope for the best.”

And on that happy note, I wentback to my own room, repeatingthe words hope, hope as I fell

asleep.The next day we got all packed

up. My dad bought us new clothesand stuff because most of ourthings got washed away. It tookhours to find a taxi because of allthe hub-ubb, but we finally foundone. The traffic was slow, but itwas a lot better than walking twomiles. Every few seconds wewould stop and wait while carsbeep and honk all around us. Itwas horrible, but at least it wasdry.

As we keep going as slow as asnail, I look outside the window. Isee the sunset, so it must be some-thing around 8 p.m., since it wassummer. It didn’t look so bad far-ther from the water, but near theocean was a complete disaster. Allthe houses were wet and shiny, likea killer rainstorm had passed by,which in a way, it had. The ma-jority of them were broken andcrumbling. The wooden plankswhich made up the houses weresnapped in half and the roof of onehouse caved in.

Then I see my house. My stom-ach felt like it was about to flip amillion summersaults. Everythingwas ruined. The house toppledover onto the backyard. It lookedlike a piece of my closet was un-der my parents’ bed. Everythingwas in another thing’s place. Istarted sobbing immediately, myheart feeling like a million pounds.

My mom and dad hugged me.Mom started sniffling and dadsqueezed the air out of me. I wasso devastated; I leaned on mymom’s shoulder and fell asleep.

“Zoe, wake up!” Mom said.“Ugh,” I grunted back. I didn’t

want to wake up. Instead, I turnedto face my poster of Selena Gomez,only to realize that it wasn’t there,and that I wasn’t in my own bed.Then the memories from yester-day come flooding back into mymind. I almost felt like cryingagain.

“Sweetie, we’re at GranmaRosie’s house. She said we couldstay here until things get sortedout. Meanwhile, there’s nothingwe can do but wait,” Dad told me.“The good news is that some re-pair men are going to rebuild ourhouse and make it as good asnew!”

“When will that be?” I askedhim.

“Oh, pumpkin, I don’t know,”Dad replied sadly. “It could takeweeks, months, or years!”

Then Granma Rosie came in.“Zoe! How nice to see you!”

greeted Granma Rosie while over-whelming me with lots of hugs andkisses. “You’ll be staying at myplace until your home is repaired.I also bought you lots of newthings that were lost in the storm.”

“Already told her, Ma,” Mom saidwith a smile.


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By Maddie KercherAldrin Elementary/Sixth grade

“Kayla and Angela, you guys cango ahead and start,” said the short,tan supervisor of the mile swim.Kayla could barely catch herbreath, she was so nervous. Afterall, she was only in the ladybugcabin, the one for the youngestkids in the entire camp. As shewaded into the icy cold water ofLake Glorian she had secondthoughts. At that point she reallybegan regretting her decision.

“Angela, I can’t do it,” Kayla said,even though they continued towade into the incredibly clear lake.Angela gave her a hard push.

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into the greenish-brown depths ofnothingness. Of course, Kaylaknew she would hear about it fromAngela.

“I’ve never been this cold in myentire life! Not to mention, if itstorms, we have to swim this stu-pid thing all over again! I’m sotired, I can barely move! I wantto…no, I need to go home!” An-gela exclaimed a countless num-ber of times in slightly differentvariations. Even though Kaylaknew it was coming, she still hatedall the whining.

“Angela, I think we’d go faster ifwe swam freestyle…with ourheads underwater,” Kayla said,annoyed.

“I don’t want to look underwa-ter and see the disgusting lake I’mswimming in, but the sooner we’reback in our separate cabins, thebetter.”

“Can you guys hear me?”shouted the supervisor into amegaphone in a piercing high-pitched voice, suddenly drowningout the two girls bickering.

“Yes!” everyone shouted back inunison from the water.

“It looks as if it may storm. Youguys can continue swimming fornow, but if it does happen tostorm, it’s over. Good luck!” she

yelled insincerely.The dark gray clouds that ear-

lier looked like pure white cottonstarted to move in over the mas-sive lake like an army of soldiersabout to shoot their bullets oflightning and rain. As soon as thedrummer boy played an alarmingboom of thunder, the soldierswould shoot.

Kayla and Angela made it abouthalfway around the lake. Just a bitmore to go and Kayla would be-come the youngest person to swimthe mile in the entire camp! As shethought to herself how truly greatthat would be, she smiled. Boom!The drum had finally sounded!

The supervisor shouted throughher obnoxious bright red mega-phone, and even though Kayla andAngela couldn’t exactly tell whatshe was saying, they were smartenough to figure it out. As a seriesof shrieks rang out from the terri-fied swimmers, Kayla and Angelaglanced at each other. They wereall the way across the lake! Not tomention, they were the only twoswimmers that far away from theshore. Could it get any worse?

Suddenly, a terrifying, blindingwhite light stretched from thoseformerly cotton-white clouds. Asit smacked the surface of the wa-ter, it sounded like 1,000 bricksfalling from the sky. For a fractionof a second, you could feel theelectricity in the air, as it threat-ened to strike once again. But, tomake matters worse, it hit the

water only about ten feet awayfrom Kayla and Angela!

“We have to get out of the wa-ter now!” yelled Angela.

“Oh my gosh Angela, I’m soscared!”

Suddenly, it began to pour large,warm raindrops. Once again,thunder boomed randomly as ifthe drummer boy was playing anew battle order. Lightning lit upthe grey sky, and as it scatteredthroughout the camp, Kayla andAngela just simply became moreafraid. Kayla gave Angela a lookthat only Angela would under-stand. Angela got the message andthey started to swim for their lives.

Halfway to the shore, Kayla andAngela were exhausted. Kayla’slegs felt like fragile and limp pasta,ready to break apart with onesmall movement.

“Girls, now! It’s raining reallyhard, and I need to get inside! Canyou believe that I have to waituntil everyone comes in? I’m sowet and cold, I think I’m going tofreeze to death!” screamed thesupervisor.

“So are we, but the differenceis, we’re alone in a lake in themiddle of a thunderstorm.” Kaylamuttered to Angela.

“Kayla! There is no time for this!Go faster!” screamed Angela.

The duo of swimmers sprintedinto the shore. As soon as they feltthe squishy sand with the sharp,colorful rocks poking their feet,they knew everything would be

okay.“That was too close,” Kayla told

Angela as she dried off with herblue and white striped towel.

“I agree. Everyone else is gonenow, probably at dinner, eatingwarm rolls and delicious taco-salad, and we’re here,” Angelasaid, rolling her eyes as she tiedher neon green tennis shoes.

“At least no one was hurt, andeven if we’re late, we still get tacosalad for dinner.”

As Kayla and Angela were serv-ing themselves heaping piles ofsalsa and cheese in the buffet linethere was an important announce-ment for anyone who participatedin the mile swim.

“I’m sure you guys will be happywith this news! Because of theunfortunate weather and cancel-lation of the mile swim, most ofyou think you will have to swim itall over again! Reasonably, we’vedecided that, no one has to swimthe mile once again, and you willreceive full credit as if you’ve com-pleted it!” exclaimed the supervi-sor.

There was a variety of “yeas”coming from the large group ofswimmers. Of course, Kayla andAngela were elated.

“I’m starving! Let’s go eat sometaco salad!” exclaimed Kayla witha huge smile on her face.

“I am right behind you!” repliedAngela happily as they made theirway to an empty table.

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