A Budding Scientist by Emilia Scotson

A time when my aunt was frightened for me was when I crossed a raging
river on a giant fallen tree. I wasn't scared. I was adventurous when I was younger
and still am. When I was little, my dad and grandpa were always proud of me, and
they still are. My papa and grandma got annoyed when I didn't eat and still do.
A time I surprised everyone was when I articulated a precognition from a
dream. I had a dream about a cat running from underneath a car. I had never seen
the car before because it was my Aunt’s new car, and she had just arrived from
Montana. Later, I remembered my dream and I told my dad that the cat was going
to run from underneath the car. Two seconds later, a cat ran from underneath the
car.
One cute thing I did when I was little was sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star.” My mom showed me a video of me singing and making my sister laugh. My
mom pointed out that even when I was little, I was fidgety. In the video, I couldn’t
sit still. I played with something in my hands while I sang. Because I was fidgety,
to help me learn my numbers, my mom let me jump on a trampoline while learning
to count. She showed me another video to help me remember doing this. I jumped
up and down on the trampoline, while counting my jumps. The goal was to count
to 100. My sister, Natalie, who was 2 or 3 years old, sat nearby watching me and
kept trying to help count, but she kept saying “100.”. One time, I got to 99, and
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