I had my own "Giving Tree" in my hometown house. There was a yard full of varieties of vegetables, flowers and trees in front of my house and a mandarin orchard behind my house. My hometown house was surrounded by many different flowers and trees. Among these I liked the "citrus natsudaidai tree" the most. It was at the back of my hometown house, near the tangerine orchard. It allowed me to do many things with it. It was my swing, it taught me the joy of the harvest and gave me fresh, sweet and sour juice. My "natsudaidai citrus tree" was already there, long before I was born. My grandfather planted the tree seed about 100 years ago. When I first recognized it, it was already a large tree, it was much taller than the roof of the house in my hometown. On an early summer day, when I might have been 8 years old, my father made a swing on a tree branch with a nylon rope. But the rope was too thin to sit on, so we decided to use a Disney book as a saddle because it was quite hard and thick and we could comfortably enjoy riding on the swing. My older sisters and I really enjoyed it. We waited in line impatiently for our turn. Going on the swing with the sisters was a more attractive and fascinating game because we had to wait to ride it. There is a saying like this: "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." This is absolutely true! If I had ridden the swing alone, I could have done it as much as I wanted, but it wouldn't have been as appealing a game as I would have played with my older sisters. The swing was not taller, prettier or more elegant than the one on the playground, but I liked it better. It belonged only to us and while I was on the swing I... in the middle of paper......d, library, fresh fruit and fruit juice. But I can't see the tree anymore. The tree was cut down for some reasons by my mother. Some harmful insects had begun to attack the tree, but the tree was too tall and large for my mother to spray insecticide. The insect pests had damaged not only the natsudaidai citrus tree, but also many mandarin trees near the natsudaidai citrus tree. Even though the natsudaidai citrus tree has disappeared, except for the lower part, I still remember the tree. Now I think that the things that the tree really gave me are happy memories that raised me as I am today and a teaching that happiness lies in emotional relationships. I was happy with the tree because I could do all the things written above with my family. The tree no longer exists, the things the tree gave me exist not only in the past but also in the present. The tree was, is always my "The giving tree".’.