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                            Introduction

The amazing beauty of the sun rising was just 

unfolding as I was landing my helicopter in a soil 

filled area with few vines and trees in the Amazon 

Rain forest. My brother, Eric O’Neill came with me 

because he wanted to see a jaguar for his 7th 

grade science report. He is only 11 and supposed 

to be in 5th grade. I am Skylar O’Neill, and one 

thing I love is Nature!! My best friend Samantha 

Marshall, also came with me because A: We do 

everything together and B: I needed someone to 

come with me except for my brother. 

(Reason C is mainly why   Samantha came 

here!)Our goal was to find a gem called the Amazon 

Stone. The gem is very rare and if we find it we will 

get extra credit in college. Since Samantha and I 

are 17, we are already in college and decided to 

find the gem to impress our Yale professors. Oh! 

Did I mention we both are in Yale? I can’t even 

believe it! I can’t wait until we find that stone in an 

ecosystem full of trees and vines which create a 

very lush jungle. The rain forest is also packed with 

over 50% of the world’s species. The rain forest is 

so beautiful. I thought.

                                                    Attack 

    After 30 minutes, my legs were really starting to hurt.  

Then I remembered that the Amazon Rain forest is 2.124 

million square miles and there was still a long way to go. I 

knew   from the beginning that it would not just take 1 day to 

find that stone, so I came prepared with food, water and 

tents. When I, saw a valley, I thought that the gem would be 

there so we walked towards the it. All of a sudden, I heard 

Samantha yell, “Look Out!” As soon as she said that, I 

stopped walking and realized that right in front of me was 

the great Amazon River. 

"We need to cross the river," I said. I was scared at first, I 

had heard and read that the great crocs and anacondas lived 

here, so I carefully and courageously, stepped in to the 

mighty Amazon River. After a few minutes of walking through 

the river I felt something biting me when I looked down, I 

saw that a piranha was biting me! There were others biting 

Eric and Samantha. “Ekk!” Samantha screamed. “Ahh!” Eric 

yelled. “Ouch!” I called out, and I yelled   “Run!” I was Super- 

Duper scared!

                    Another Problem  

         As we were running for our lives, something stuck onto my leg 

and saw that they were leeches. One thing I knew was that leeches 

were parasites and live in a natural freshwater habitat like this one. 

Wait a second, I thought, this is the great Amazonian leech. There 

was only one on me but it hurt like crazy! It was the ugliest thing I 

had ever seen. It was big and had slime and looked like a big blob of 

glazed black tar. Did I forget to mention that IT’S SUCKING MY 

BLOOD? In less than a minute my ankle was numb. Great! I thought, 

just great. Here’s a summary of what’s happening right now: I am 

trying to run through water with piranhas chasing me, leeches are 

sucking my blood and my ankle is numb. How could this get any 

worse? Thought to soon. From what sounded like a far distance I 

heard a roar. At least its far away I thought. 

Again, thought to soon. I heard a rumble in the trees and a 

branch break. The roar was a jaguar’s and it was its lunch 

time. Like, I said before, my brother came to find a jaguar. 

He was taking pictures of it. We were not running anymore. It 

was either getting bit by piranhas and leeches of getting 

pounced on by a jaguar. Plan A was better, so we slowly 

walked through the river watching the jaguar. It was about to 

pounce on one of us when a monkey said “Ouhh Ahhh!”, and 

distracted the jaguar. Unfortunately, when it was not paying 

attention the monkey became the jaguar’s lunch. I felt sorry 

for that monkey; it had saved us. Well, that just a food chain, 

I thought, as a tear rolled down my cheek.

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