I will never forget the day that my father came home and told us that we were moving to Manaus, Brazil. I was so excited. We had been in the same place for almost 6 months. My father was in oil exploration, so we moved a lot, and I was ready to hit the road again. I could not wait to get to school the next day. I wanted to find out exactly where Manaus, Brazil was. It was near the Amazon River at the edge of the rainforest in South America. It sounded so glamorous.