LOST IN A JUNGLE

M

y father took part in a scientific expedition in the Brazilian rainforests. Their task was to study the ways of living of all the inhabitants of the Brazilian jungles.

I wanted to go – so he took me with him. I thought it was going to be interesting and at the end, it turned out to be a bigger adventure than expected.

Three days had passed before my adventure happened. We had already set up a camp – right after our arrival with a jeep from Rio de Janeiro’s airport.

Everyone from the expedition crew (except me) went on a little research excursion around. It was supposed to be easy and quick. I stayed to guard the camp.

But, unfortunately, a terrible storm happened. The jungle was darker than usual. It was raining heavily, the wind was blowing hard and it was foggy, cold and scary. The others didn’t come back that day.

I stayed in my tent that whole day, covered in blankets to warm myself up and with a candle to make it lighter inside.

The first thing I did the next day was putting up a square ~ shaped fence around the camp. I put some roughly cut pieces of wood.

There were several packs of canned food in the other tents, but I had already eaten them. To survive, I had to climb up the trees and pick fruits. Trees are pretty high in the rainforests, luckily I had a 50m – long – rope which made climbing easier.

Water wasn’t a problem – I had a stock of 6 gallons, but still, I didn’t afford myself to wash the fruits with it, so I peeled them with a pocket knife.

It was rather difficult to make fire, because it was constantly raining (not heavily, fortunately, more because of the humidity). I had matches, but I also needed petrol in order to keep the rain longer (because of the rain). But all I could find were a few little bottles of pure alcohol. I had to use them!

That night, I heard footsteps. Actually, just steps. I was afraid from the wild animals. I was terrified because the steps were becoming louder and louder. I had a torch, but no batteries for it. Therefore, it was useless. I was at the edge of my nerves when I saw shadows at the side of the tent, but I felt relieved and very happy when I saw my father’s face!

I spent a week alone in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest. Although I had a cellular phone, I was not able to use it due to lack of network! I was literally cut off from civilisation. But, I attained a good… Well, better to say - useful experience!

Written by: Viktor Janevski – I year

Our Work

Our Work

ENO- Day of the Tree

(22 of September)

-Before I made this text, I made a little research about ecology on the internet.

-Actually, the meaning of the word ecology is “home”. That made me thinks about this theme. And I made a little comparation. This world, the whole planet Earth is our home in a wider meaning. We make sure that our room is always clean, tidy just like we love it, with our favorite colors. All with a goal to create a mere comforting atmosphere- to be more comfortable and pleasant place which we spend our time in. The same should be done on we live in- our home of togetherness.

- Modern activities of the main man itself result to destroying the whole atmosphere. Because of this it’s very important that more states should group in order to organize as a stopping of this global industrialization.

- That was our motivation, to follow our global trend, to be involved in this action which is organized by ENO- virtual school from Finland, and till 2017, 100 million trees to be planted.

-Anyway, numbers are not so important, you can say not at all. The main goal of this is everybody to give something, a wish to be born in order to do something useful for this planet, because its one- it’s unique, its our home , doing good for it we help our selves.

-Never doubt that a small group of dedicated good minded people can change the world, actually, we are the only reason that they lead the same through a better path

(Margaret Mid)

- The nation which destroys the soil destroys its self. The forests are the lungs of our world-giving fresh air and energy to our People (Theodore Roosevelt , 26^th President of USA)

- We the students of “International High School “from Skopje feel an honor and pleasure that we are apart of this citizen action for a clean and European Macedonia. Although it started yesterday on “ Mala Bogorodica “, we today continue with cleaning and planting trees on our schools surroundings. And we won’t stop here. The Action “Day of the tree “we should use it more often, in order to become our habit, because with one tree planted we create a greener surrounding. When the sun sets, we already should have an initiative to make our world worth living in.

- Our Macedonia is a small country. The nature gave beautiful, rich and exotic mountains, forests, lakes, village- only if it was cleaner and greener-and then it will be a real paradise for us and the next generations. That’s why we should respect the laws of nature, to hear the sounds of our survival and to respect the nature as a perfect place for the human kind. Only that way it will be clean and unpolluted country, as a one peaceful place for living on planet Earth

- Time to take action-To make the world a better place! To celebrate the day of the tree! To plant a tree!

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