Jewish camp

Anticipating Camp—A Short Story

Hannah

The trademark camp experience inspires many things: food fights, crushes, fashion trends and... even fiction! Click here to read this short story about the jitters of that notorious drive with the old folks to camp on Opening Day.

Fear seized me.

As my parents drove up the last stretch of road to camp the excitement that had become almost a part of me vanished to be replaced by an incredible amount of worries. Did I remember everything? Would I be homesick? Would I have friends? How long would it take me to make friends? I felt as if my air had been cut off. It is the same fear you get on the first day of school. You want to crawl into a corner and sleep, your problems melting away.



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