Kenyan Christmas Tree

By Porter Fairbourne

Once upon a time there was a Fairbourne family who needed a Christmas tree so they went to Haller Park (its kinda like a zoo with lots of trees and grass and water and stuff )  So they asked a worker where they could cut a tree down. He showed us the way. I was riding in the tuk tuk (he would transport the tree to our house. The worker was in the car with my family, leading us the way and then we stopped. I got out of the tuk tuk and we walked into the forest. We saw the biggest Charley Brown Christmas tree ever. Then we told the worker we want that one and he went up and with four big saw motions he cut down the tree. Then he lifted it up and put it on his shoulder and carried to the tuk tuk and put it into the back.

We all got into the car and the tuk tuk followed us home.  A hour or so later we started putting lights on it that our friend  brought from the US. So we got them on and they looked so good for about 2 minutes.  When they turned off apparently the flow of electricity was different here so they burned out. So mother went out to the store and bought some lights here. She put them on and it took a while to get them to work and then to stop twinkling (she hates twinkling lights) then we hung stuff on it and it looked wonderful.  We opened the doors to the balcony to let some air come in and the wind blew the Christmas tree over.  The water from the
tree was everywhere.  The ornaments fell off the lights turned off.  By then my mom was to tired to do it all again, she didn't even want to come out of her room.  We were all kind off bummed, but my mom set it up the next day while we were at school and we all lived a Merry Christmas.