Finally after studying for many years the young teacher was ready for her first assignment But when she read the name of the place where she was being sent she was a bit unsettled Comunidad Las Delicias in the Amazon She had never heard of it She looked it up in an atlas and on the internet In the end it was quite clear that she was going to work in the middle of the jungle That's fine Wherever it is there will be children who want to read and write and learn geography science and math I'll bring lots of books to show them she thought
One Saturday very early in the morning the young teacher boarded a bus headed for the Amazon The journey was very long She had calculated that it would take around twenty hours But in the end it lasted over thirty two hours because of a narrow highway in bad condition full of curves potholes and bumps
During the journey the young teacher shared her food with a kind woman seated beside her who in turn invited her to sleep at her home before continuing on to Las Delicias
