First Location

My first Jungle that I visited was The Amazon Rain Forest. The Amazon Rain Forest is located in South America, in the county of Brazil. The Capital of Brazil is Brasilia. There are a lot of country's that border Brazil such as: French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean border South America. The GPS coordinates are 2˚39'58.57"5 60"00'16.30". The climate here is is very hot, humid and wet. The temperature gets no higher than 93˚F and gets no lower than 65˚F and we get about more than 100 inches of rain here. The humidity here is about 77 to 88%. Where I am looks like nothing but trees and different tropical plants. My location was one of the first rain forests formed 15 million years ago.My location is important because it covers 40% of South America and is the largest rain forest in the world. Also the The Amazon River runs through the Amazon rain forest and is the 2nd largest river in the world.

Personal Information

Hi my name is bsktball4814 and I'm 14 years-old. I am going to visit jungles around the world on my 2 month trip! I'm leaving next week on Tuesday (April 14th). I can't wait! I'm very excited to go on this trip but I'm going to miss my family very much and I'm a bit nervous about running into strange animals and people on my trip. I talked to my mom yesterday and she said that shes excited for me to see more of the world but she said that her and my dad are going to miss me very much and that they hope this will be a good experience for me!

Multi Genre Report

COMMON COLD WEEKLY
NOVEMBER 22, 2002


COLD SEASON IS #2 FOR PUTTING PEOPLE IN BED
BY: LINDSAY WHITNEY

NEWPORT- Once again cold season is coming around and is putting nearly 100,000 people in bed each year. We talked with one of Eastern Maine Medical Center's Doctors, Dr. Greene. We asked Dr. Greene what causes the common cold? In her response she said that “ the common cold virus is caused by having contact with a person who already has a cold, such as: shaking hands, kissing, sharing drinks or sharing eating utensils.” Dr. Greene also said “ if you have children to disinfect their toys or anywhere that they can reach that could possibly hold bacteria and to make sure there isn't any colds going around at their daycare center.” Dr. Greene showed us a diagram of how the common cold starts. She said “the common cold starts when the virus attaches itself to a receptor on the surface of nasal cells in your nose, then once the virus is in the cell it starts infection which leads to a cold.” We also asked anonymous people about there experience with the common cold. One anonymous person said “I hate having a cold and when I do have one I often miss work or miss out on something”. Another anonymous person had said that they know when their coming down with a cold when they start getting a runny nose and sore throat. Dr. Greene was telling us that Eastern Maine has a policy against colds. She said “where so many people are at the hospital they can't risk having the common cold virus going around. We also have thousands of instant hand sanitizer machines around the hospital. My boss also makes us sanitize our hands for any germs after we eat or after we get done dealing with a patient. We also have to wash our hands before we go see a patient.” After talking to Dr. Greene we have learned that they have to be very careful with germs around the hospital. Some hospitals won't even let people or employees with colds enter their hospital because they can't risk having so many germs going around with so many sick people in the hospital. After talking to Dr. Greene they gave us a tour around Eastern Maine Medical Center. As we were going around we did see that they have a lot of sinks and instant hand sanitizer stations. I've learned a lot from all of this and I hope you did too! But always remember to wash your hands!