By Giacomo Di Domenico
Teacher: Arun Khanna, Jefferson School
Award: First Place, Fifth Grade Essay
The alarm screeches, telling me I have to get out of bed. As I put on my favorite pair of sweatpants, the ones I refuse to wash, I look out of the window at another colorless, foggy day.
Once I’m situated at the kitchen table with my bland bowl of cereal, I look out the window once more. Fog. But as time ticks on, my bland cereal turns to a rich flavor as the sun seeps through the cracks in the fog and lights up the morning. As I watch, a bright blue Stellar Jay lands on a leafless cherry tree, making it look as if it has just blossomed. On the horizon, the sun has crawled up enough to put a light on a set of dark green eucalyptus trees.
I step outside to go to school, and the red brick patio seems to glow as I walk along it. It is then that I realize how not colorless this day is going to be.