Emily

Hiya, I’m Emily and I’m a 7th grader at Buffalo Creek Middle School. I’m very interested in animals, especially dolphins and I want to be a marine biologist when I grow up. I love the winter season, just because I love the cold; I was born in England and moved here when I was 7. I live with my Mum, Dad, 10 year old brother, Liam, my two cats, 3 year old Larry and 14 year old India and my guinea pig, 7 month old Jasper. I’m crazy, awesome, quiet, loud, smart, funny, sarcastic, weird and loved by every single one of my friends and “sisters.” I am an avid reader and will read mostly anything you throw at me. I love Maximum Ride, Warrior Cats and Twilight and adore every character, apart from any of the evil or bad guys.
 * All About Me **

I chose Journalism as one as my electives because I am very, very, very interested in writing and like to write for pleasure and the Newspaper and Yearbook. In Newspaper I prefer to write creative short stories that leave you hanging and you have to wait until the next issue to read the next installment. But, I will write informational articles as well; but I don't enjoy those as much as creative stories. For the Yearbook, I write the captions for pictures and the little informational sentences that tell you all about that page. For my pleasure, I'm working on a book that I am hoping will get published one day.

I plan to give the paper my writing and creative skills to make it even better than last year because we can improve this paper every single year it will be out!

-Emily O'

Buttermilk Cupcakes Recipe by Emily O.

Cupcake Batter 3 cups cake flour (not self rising) 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 2 1/4 baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt 2 1/4 sticks of unsalted butter (room temperature) 5 large whole eggs 3 egg yolks 2 cups buttermilk 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees.

Icing 3 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature) 1 confectioners sugar, sifted 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Halloween Get black or orange decorations and sprinkle them on the cupcake to add pizzaz. Add food coloring to the icing mix to get in the Halloween spirit.

New Teachers at BCMS! If Buffalo Creek Middle School is a new school to you, don't worry, some teachers are new too! Our new addition for math is Mr. Escorcia; for Language Arts, we have gained Mrs. Dolan, Ms. Dubois, and Mrs. Anderson. For science, Mrs. Bolin and Mrs. Lentinti have joined the BCMS staff! Can you picture how they felt? Maybe happy to be at a new school, excited to have a new start, maybe even scared about starting at a new school! Maybe they felt the same way you did! Hopefully now that the first quarter has ended, they feel that the rest of the school year will go great!

-Look forward to interviews with these new teachers throughout the school year!- by: Emily O.