December 1, 1999
Humanities, Block 1

                                                 Sand Dune Park

 
Once in second grade Danny Beck and I were rummaging through Sand Dune Park's forest.  We found something really cool: it was a big tree covered with vines that made an enclosure with only two entrances.

 
Two years later in fourth grade, my friends and I had had many war-like situations in the forest against other people who had tree forts.  We were out of fort ideas because all of our previous forts had been destroyed.  Then I remembered the tree Danny Beck and I had discovered.  I gathered my friends and we quickly found several poles and planks.  Our tree-fort was up and running.  We soon had a system of command.  We had different lookout posts up in our fort.  Each person was assigned to a post and sworn to secrecy.

 
We continued to build and camouflage the fort until one day a certain somebody let out the secret.  One of my friends told someone in fifth grade.  Then the person he told brought his little brother to the park, and then his little brother told all of his friends.  Soon our fort was infested with a bunch of little kids.

 
If you tell one person to keep a secret, soon everyone will know the secret!   (But they will keep it a secret?)