“Today is going to be the best day ever”, I said. This was the day my friend Fernanda and i were going to the rainforest to research medicine for Alzheimer's. We were going to see a lot of cool animals like Glass frogs and Potoo’s! The day before my best friend and I flew to South America since it was really far away and we didn't want to drive. The next day we woke up at our hotel and got a taxi. When are we going to get to the rainforest, I thought to myself.  I didn't want to annoy the taxi driver so I didn't say anything out loud. When we finally got to the rainforest, we were tired. The drive took several hours, but we were finally there. The rainforest was really rocky.

We started to look around at our surroundings. I began to wonder where we were going to sleep. Then I got a shock, I felt a sting like a needle poking my ankle.

“Watch out!!”, I said to Fernanda.

“What?” she said., I pointed to the ant.

“It's just an ant..” she said, puzzled.

“It's not just any ant it's a bullet ant!!” I said, annoyed with her questioning. “Are you ok?”, she said looking at the bite.

“Yeah, I'm fine, it just stings a little.”  I was lying but I didn't want her to worry about me

Moving forward on our adventure we decided to start walking. I was a mouse creeping along the rocky path. It was so quiet,I thought it couldn’t get this quiet in the rainforest. I always had imagined it would be loud because of all the animals making noise. We found some shelter under a tree with apples. But these apples didn’t look like real apples.  They were yellow with a really spiky stem. They looked fine to eat so I almost took a bite. Luckily, Fernanda said,

“Those are Devil’s apples don't eat them!”  I threw the apple down and stepped on it. “You saved my life thank you so much!”, I said.  I was so relieved relieved that I didn't eat it. That would have poisoned me really, really really, really badly!