Seventh Grade 2018
First Place: Ayah Rachidi, Dilijan
You’re on a hike in the forest when the trees start talking to you. What do they say and what do you do?
I remember it like it was yesterday. The tears streaming down my face, glistening like stars as they fell on the crimson snow, stained from the blood gushing from my open wound. I was in pain, nerve-wrecking, blinding pain. I felt my life slipping away from my weak grasp…The last thing I remember from that day were its eyes. They were red, just like the blood draining from my veins, with a deadly look. And then….Darkness.It’s a miracle I’m still alive, but how this all came to be, we shall have to go back, to when I was a young girl, still living with her family. We were on vacation, a vacation in the woods. I still remember the joy and happiness I experienced, the cool, bark scented air, the green grass studded with morning dew, glistening like a thousand diamonds. The blue sky filled with serenade, of the songbirds, and the animals, oh such wonderful animals, deer, squirrels, foxes, rabbits. and other such wonderful creatures All was well, untill the night of the third day. I remember, that’s when it all started. The whispering, the trees, they were whispering. Trees grow to be very old, and very wise, from what I’ve learned that night, and they had many tales to tell, and I heard them. They were whispering, whispering to me, to listen, for that night under the black sky studded with diamonds we call stars, they told me a story, a story of centuries old, the story of the wolf and the deer.
There were once a man and a woman. They were madly in love and such a perfect couple. It was as if they were born to be one. All was well, until tragedy struck, for death had taken them both. As they parted from their fragile bodies, they prayed to be reunited in their next life. The woman reborn as a deer, the man, a wolf. But, miraculousely; they broke the iron laws of nature and still loved one another. But, breaking the laws of nature comes with a price. Soon, darkness came and possessed the wolf, reducing him to his most basic primal instinct.
Kill.
Kill anything that is food, kill anything that can breath, KILL EVERYTHING!
The young deer died in the very spot I was sitting. And then they warned me. The trees warned me that the dark wolf is still alive and nursing his bloodlust when the chance is there, and I was lucky he hasn’t found us yet. They told me to leave this place immediately, for certain death soon awaits me. Luckily me and my family were leaving soon, so I escaped alive. But as I grew older, I also grew skeptical, so I commited the mistake that nearly took my life. How did I get saved, I don’t know, but next to that dark shape I saw something else, a golden silhouette the shape of a deer.
Second Place: Anna Nurimanyan, Yerevan
You’re on a hike in the forest when the trees start talking to you. What do they say and what do you do?
It was a great summer afternoon and I decided to go on a hike. The sun was bright. There were a lot of trees and bushes around. I pluged my earbuds into my phone and I turned on my favorite song. The rhythm was pumping my heart as I continued to walk up the hill. I heard a whisper. It seems unusual to me but I ignored it. Still walking up the hill, I heard something along the lines of “Hey…Look…Hello.” To me it was just some sort of sound from someone else in the forest. I stoped to tie my shoes and I noticed the song ended. The noises and sounds that I was hearing grew louder as I turned around to see trees talking. Wow. Trees that talk! I was slightly scared and I though I was hallusinating so I opened my bottel and poured the water on my face.
“It’s not a dream” I heard a voice say. In a shocked and confused tone I said, “Then what is all of this.” More trees started to talk and I got even more confused.
A large oak tree yelled, “Quit. Let me explain.” I was even more astonished that before. “You my friend said the oak tree to me, “have come to the forest of talking trees.” My facial expression stayed equaly confused. The trees explained that they are magical and that they can talk.
One of the trees started to ask questions.
“Who are you? What’s your name?” I answered quitly and didn’t speak much. “Oh c’mon” said the other tree “she’s just another boring human who’s talking to trees.” Being a little offunded, I decided to tell them about me. We talked and talked and I heard so many amazing stories from them. One of the trees told me about the time the gardener accidently broke his favorite branch. He said that he was crying for hours on end. Another tree told me about the time they didn’t get any water for 3 weeks. It was amazing how trees can live such a human-like lives.
From the back I heard a pine cone fall. All of a sudden, there are a lot of pincones coming my way. “It’s the Pine tree!” I hear one of the trees yell. All the trees sort of beat down in one way and they told me to hide. It was raining pinecones everyone was scared. After the pine cone rain incident all the trees got up. I asked about what was going on. They explained that the pine trees like to bully other trees. “You’re not as pretty as us!” they say.
I calmed the trees and we continued our great conversation. Suddenly, I got a call from my mom and she told me to come home. I hugged the trees and wished them luck. I promissed that I won’t tell their secret and that I will come back to that forest. I put my earbuds back into my ears and waved goodbye.
Third Place: Hakob Hovhannisyan, Yerevan
You and your family have been chosen to host Earth’s first visitor from outer space; an alien. They are your age and will go to school with you, write about your day.
Am morning, aproximatly at 6:00 am I waked up to prepear my day. When I went to bathroom I sawmy new friend who came yesterday from space who was trying to tunr on light. I just smiled and y came to explane he how das work. I understude that he was surprised, he told me: “Wow how cool is it. In our Earth we did’nt had this foncenatlity.” I choosed to take one hour to explane him how do we have to use correctly any object in the house. It was 6:45 am when we diceded to go kitchen to breackfast tagather. When we where eating I started to ask questions about the place he came from. I was chocked, and I think you too you’ll be after lisen. I started to look from another way the life. I understud that we have to think about the protection of the world. Ten minutes after I arrived to school with Eric (my new frend).
At the school, I show Eric to my other school frends and they were to happy to have a new frend.
A few moments later we started classes
When the teacher was cheking that every one in present he saw Eric and the teacher gives autorisation to stay a this science class. Owr lesson was about the protection of owr Earth. When we where discassing about all problems that we have, I decided to tell every thing that Eric told me this morning about the protection of owr big Earth. All the class was lisening to me and everybody changed their idea about our Earth. We diceded to change our abitudes and save owr world!
When we finished w owr classes we go went home and Eric had to go back on his Earth.
At 9:00 pm when Eric had to go, I said “You are a good sort of person. Thanks to you and your mind, you convinced to some peple to help owr World. Good bye.”
He ansewrd “Goodbye.” And he went.
End.
You’re on a hike in the forest when the trees start talking to you. What do they say and what do you do?
I remember it like it was yesterday. The tears streaming down my face, glistening like stars as they fell on the crimson snow, stained from the blood gushing from my open wound. I was in pain, nerve-wrecking, blinding pain. I felt my life slipping away from my weak grasp…The last thing I remember from that day were its eyes. They were red, just like the blood draining from my veins, with a deadly look. And then….Darkness.It’s a miracle I’m still alive, but how this all came to be, we shall have to go back, to when I was a young girl, still living with her family. We were on vacation, a vacation in the woods. I still remember the joy and happiness I experienced, the cool, bark scented air, the green grass studded with morning dew, glistening like a thousand diamonds. The blue sky filled with serenade, of the songbirds, and the animals, oh such wonderful animals, deer, squirrels, foxes, rabbits. and other such wonderful creatures All was well, untill the night of the third day. I remember, that’s when it all started. The whispering, the trees, they were whispering. Trees grow to be very old, and very wise, from what I’ve learned that night, and they had many tales to tell, and I heard them. They were whispering, whispering to me, to listen, for that night under the black sky studded with diamonds we call stars, they told me a story, a story of centuries old, the story of the wolf and the deer.
There were once a man and a woman. They were madly in love and such a perfect couple. It was as if they were born to be one. All was well, until tragedy struck, for death had taken them both. As they parted from their fragile bodies, they prayed to be reunited in their next life. The woman reborn as a deer, the man, a wolf. But, miraculousely; they broke the iron laws of nature and still loved one another. But, breaking the laws of nature comes with a price. Soon, darkness came and possessed the wolf, reducing him to his most basic primal instinct.
Kill.
Kill anything that is food, kill anything that can breath, KILL EVERYTHING!
The young deer died in the very spot I was sitting. And then they warned me. The trees warned me that the dark wolf is still alive and nursing his bloodlust when the chance is there, and I was lucky he hasn’t found us yet. They told me to leave this place immediately, for certain death soon awaits me. Luckily me and my family were leaving soon, so I escaped alive. But as I grew older, I also grew skeptical, so I commited the mistake that nearly took my life. How did I get saved, I don’t know, but next to that dark shape I saw something else, a golden silhouette the shape of a deer.
Second Place: Anna Nurimanyan, Yerevan
You’re on a hike in the forest when the trees start talking to you. What do they say and what do you do?
It was a great summer afternoon and I decided to go on a hike. The sun was bright. There were a lot of trees and bushes around. I pluged my earbuds into my phone and I turned on my favorite song. The rhythm was pumping my heart as I continued to walk up the hill. I heard a whisper. It seems unusual to me but I ignored it. Still walking up the hill, I heard something along the lines of “Hey…Look…Hello.” To me it was just some sort of sound from someone else in the forest. I stoped to tie my shoes and I noticed the song ended. The noises and sounds that I was hearing grew louder as I turned around to see trees talking. Wow. Trees that talk! I was slightly scared and I though I was hallusinating so I opened my bottel and poured the water on my face.
“It’s not a dream” I heard a voice say. In a shocked and confused tone I said, “Then what is all of this.” More trees started to talk and I got even more confused.
A large oak tree yelled, “Quit. Let me explain.” I was even more astonished that before. “You my friend said the oak tree to me, “have come to the forest of talking trees.” My facial expression stayed equaly confused. The trees explained that they are magical and that they can talk.
One of the trees started to ask questions.
“Who are you? What’s your name?” I answered quitly and didn’t speak much. “Oh c’mon” said the other tree “she’s just another boring human who’s talking to trees.” Being a little offunded, I decided to tell them about me. We talked and talked and I heard so many amazing stories from them. One of the trees told me about the time the gardener accidently broke his favorite branch. He said that he was crying for hours on end. Another tree told me about the time they didn’t get any water for 3 weeks. It was amazing how trees can live such a human-like lives.
From the back I heard a pine cone fall. All of a sudden, there are a lot of pincones coming my way. “It’s the Pine tree!” I hear one of the trees yell. All the trees sort of beat down in one way and they told me to hide. It was raining pinecones everyone was scared. After the pine cone rain incident all the trees got up. I asked about what was going on. They explained that the pine trees like to bully other trees. “You’re not as pretty as us!” they say.
I calmed the trees and we continued our great conversation. Suddenly, I got a call from my mom and she told me to come home. I hugged the trees and wished them luck. I promissed that I won’t tell their secret and that I will come back to that forest. I put my earbuds back into my ears and waved goodbye.
Third Place: Hakob Hovhannisyan, Yerevan
You and your family have been chosen to host Earth’s first visitor from outer space; an alien. They are your age and will go to school with you, write about your day.
Am morning, aproximatly at 6:00 am I waked up to prepear my day. When I went to bathroom I sawmy new friend who came yesterday from space who was trying to tunr on light. I just smiled and y came to explane he how das work. I understude that he was surprised, he told me: “Wow how cool is it. In our Earth we did’nt had this foncenatlity.” I choosed to take one hour to explane him how do we have to use correctly any object in the house. It was 6:45 am when we diceded to go kitchen to breackfast tagather. When we where eating I started to ask questions about the place he came from. I was chocked, and I think you too you’ll be after lisen. I started to look from another way the life. I understud that we have to think about the protection of the world. Ten minutes after I arrived to school with Eric (my new frend).
At the school, I show Eric to my other school frends and they were to happy to have a new frend.
A few moments later we started classes
When the teacher was cheking that every one in present he saw Eric and the teacher gives autorisation to stay a this science class. Owr lesson was about the protection of owr Earth. When we where discassing about all problems that we have, I decided to tell every thing that Eric told me this morning about the protection of owr big Earth. All the class was lisening to me and everybody changed their idea about our Earth. We diceded to change our abitudes and save owr world!
When we finished w owr classes we go went home and Eric had to go back on his Earth.
At 9:00 pm when Eric had to go, I said “You are a good sort of person. Thanks to you and your mind, you convinced to some peple to help owr World. Good bye.”
He ansewrd “Goodbye.” And he went.
End.