Hi! My name is Avery Mackenna Schafer. I was born in Langley B.C. but I moved to Metchosin B.C. when I was ten months old where my parents started building our house in Metchosin. I moved to Brookes Westshore from West-Mont Montessori when I was eleven years old for grade six. I have been attending Brookes for four years and I’m excited to be starting my fifth. Some of my biggest interests are traveling, jumping horses competitively, reading, spending time with family and friends, and exploring new places. I have traveled mostly in European countries and Canada although I have been to the U.S. as well. My aunt introduced me to riding horses when I was six and, to my parents dismay, have been riding ever since. I have recently started a lease on a new horse who I have come to love very quickly. Reading has been something I loved doing since I was very young, since the age of around ten I have read nearly 220 books and have enjoyed all of them. I have never read a book that I did not enjoy. Yes I have read books that take me a long time or which have parts that I find boring but to this day I have never finished a book and been unhappy that I read it.
I am a well versed, consistent and leisurely reader. I have read many books of many genres and enjoy taking my time. I have very few graphic novels and prefer traditional novels as I feel that I am more able to immerse myself in them. I love to get lost in a world that is not my own, I love to escape and become someone other than myself. I have been sticking to fantasy and contemporary romance of late and believe that they are my favorite genres.
I am practical, dark and good at conveying a feeling when it comes to writing. I have ended many school project writing pieces in tragedy or death due to timelines or word counts that I estimated would not be able to fit the full extent of my imagination. In my creative writing I enjoy creating pieces that will cause the reader to feel strong emotion. I find that feelings that are darker are easier and personally more fun to portray in my stories. For school projects like essays and reports I tend to manage my time slightly poorer than I originally intend but almost always come out with something that I am proud of.