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Bring Your Offspring To Work Day | Aliterate

Bring Your Offspring To Work Day | Aliterate It was 7:42, it was the big moment. I had clearly missed the bus already, but I was sure it would be worth it. It was going to be one e-mail from AT&T that would change my life forever: would I be going to my mother's workplace? Sweat was dripping down my face and my hands were shaking as if there was an earthquake ranking 9 on the Richter Scale happening right now. A loud sound came from my dear mother's phone; I quickly scurried over to the phone, pushing my irrelevant brother aside. My eyes vigorously scanned a bunch of useless pages until it came to the juicy part. I looked under my little brother's name: rejected. I still had a chance. I looked under my name: accepted. YES! I wasn't allowed to go to my mother's workplace though, 1) She had a big meeting that day; 2) Both of us had to go in order for my mom to take us; 3) This all never happened, and my mom had received the email during the middle of the

Happy Earth Day | Aliterate

    Happy Earth Day | Aliterate It's that time of the year again. The time where many people who don't care about the Earth celebrate this endangered "holiday". I remember back in 5th grade when my parents would have to sign a permission slip for our teachers to take us outside in the wilderness to hike and observe the biosphere. We just ended up going to the soccer field of our school and searching for bugs. We never really found any bugs but if we did, they were most likely dead since the girls in my grade went on bug-killing expeditions.  When my class was first introduced to Earth Day in second grade, we thought it was a joke: 1) Our  teacher loved jokes (for April Fools, she told us that she brought us brownies, but instead she got brown construction paper and cut out the letter "E" twenty-one times using a template); 2) We were ignorant back then; 3) The word "Day" made Earth Day really special and we thought it would declare a day o