Chaos into the woods: a Rainforest case

by Margaret Santiago (Brazil)

I didn't expect to find Brazil

Miles away from Brazilian Northwest litoral, close to sugarcane fields, two women ride to support an ONG carbon stock inventory at a rainforest fragment. There, they met three of their colleagues who were already collecting. Not obstant the distant sampling sites, the highly ondulated terrain made the tasks even though. The leader decided to return alone to get the samples on trail, and the intern was chosen to go along. Everything would be all right if this wasn't me and if the GPS haven't betrayed two of us while trying to return. At the dark, falling with dead trees while sneaking around into the woods, we finally fount its exit. However, the leader had to return and find out where our crew were. Alone, screaming their names, I wondered the price of some volunteering works when loudy barks made me picture me gone for a moment. Luckly, researchers arrived in time to save my blood and rescued me from that harsh. Embarrasseds and exhausteds, we drove home comenting snake's stories from Eliza's previous trips. On the road, the silence of the night surely contrasted with the unquiet minds.