Camp Green Lake - Stanley's sample letter

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This is an example of a letter that Stanley might have written to his parents while at Camp Greenlake in order to communicate the terrible conditions and the horrible experience he was having there:

                                                                        Camp Green Lake

                                                                        125, Green Drive,

                                                                        Texas, Ct 10645

                                                                        U.S.A

                                                                        5/18/06

Dear Mom & Dad,

        Can you believe it? I’m still alive! Even after having lived in this hell for about a month, I’m still alive. I can’t tell you how bad this place is, but I’ll try my best. It’s nowhere even close to what we thought it would be like, ‘Camp Fun&Games’, To begin with, despite the name, there is no lake anywhere in a hundred miles around here! It’s just a dry, barren wasteland, and to make it worse, the place is crowded with huge holes dug by campers, scorpions, rattlesnakes and worst of all, yellow spotted lizards. I know you’ve probably never heard of one, but they say that if one ever bites you, you won’t live much longer.

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The worst thing is that as the punishment, we have to dig holes in this heat, such a boring and exhausting job, there are a hundred and one more things to do instead of this. Mr. Pendanski, our counselor, says that we do it for character building, but I think that there’s something fishy, it’s as if we’re searching for something, like a huge treasure, or something, but anyway, it isn’t going to get any better no matter what I think.

        The only trees around are two old oak trees, between which there is a hammock, and behind ...

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