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My story is about Shel SIlverstein's

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book "The Giving Tree." I have a connection

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with this book because at my sleepaway

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camp the two oldest bunks would-- they

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would read it together with the staff,

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and we would always-- it would be right after the

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main banquet, which is when the ninth

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graders would join the 10th graders. And

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it's a big emotional night and so

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afterwards we would always read "The Giving Tree." And it's really letting the

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older kids pass down the title the reigning

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title to the ninth graders, because next

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summer they will be the

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head of camp. And so it's really

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emotional because it's the night they--

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the night before packing day, which is

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the last day of camp and so every time I

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see this book in stores I read it.

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I always think of my camp, my camp  friends

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and how much I miss it.