Day 3 on the Farm

Today I milked a cow for the first time.  I felt nervous at first when I felt it because it felt like rubber.  Then I milked it and it was ok. When I first got to the farm I felt really scared of the cows.  We have been cleaning their manure and feeding them.  Some of the adults and my friends have helped me feed them and take care of them.  I'm glad that I did these things.  -- Joel

This is a picture of me on the first day at the farm.  I am petting a cow in the dairy barn.  The cows in the diary barn make milk.  They get milked twice a day.  I learned a lot being here and I've done a lot of new things.  -- Kaya

This is a picture of me petting the cow named Happy and feeding her.  The cow doesn't like to be poked.  If it is poked, it will shake its skin because it will think it's a fly on it.  You should pet it nicely.  My favorite thing about the farm is the cheese.  At first I didn't like the cheese house because it was stinky and it was boring.  But then I started to like it because we cleaned the cheese and we cleaned the sides.  We got to taste the cheese.  It is called Tarentaise and it tastes good.  There's another cheese called Reading.  That one was good, too.  The farm is really fun and it's big.  Today when I fed a calf it was chewing my glove and licking me.  -- Jerrod

These are pictures of me feeding the cows at the farm.  The left picture is of the heifers and the right picture is of the mothers in the dairy barn.  The cows in the dairy barn have already had babies.  My first day feeding a cow I was very scared.  Then I tried it and it was ok.  I'm having a lot of fun here.  I do not want to go back home -- it's too much fun!  Here things are different from Boston because there are farms, animals, no tv, no phones, or any electronics.  First when I came here I didn't see tv and thought it would be boring, but it's not because we do a lot of things here.  We wake up at 6:30 in the morning and we go to sleep at 8:30 at night.  When we wake up in the morning we do our am chores and then we have breakfast at 9:00am and we get confused and think it's lunch.  And I think lunch is dinner.  I miss my family, but I'm ok.  The ones I miss the most are Gia and Gabriel.  I wish that Gabriel and Gia could do this in 5th or 6th grade because it's a lot of fun and awesome.  --Destiny