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
The young teacher's new friend woke her in the middle of the night handing the teacher her suitcase and her box of books Quick run The boat's leaving The clouds tell of a storm and if the boat doesn't set off right away the whirlpools in the river will become very dangerous
Boat What boat I don't want to sail on the river I get seasick and I'm afraid of storms and whirlpools the young teacher protested while the woman urged her to leave On the boat someone loaned her a plastic tarp to protect her box from the water splashing everywhere The books her greatest treasure journeyed safe and dry
