Primitive Farm Table

On the extension of the Royal princess the boarding ramp to stretch hydraulically activated the 3 Bridges, several canoes small and some drinks scarcely rather big to support the families of the town and the children and immersed itself in the muddy Amazon that the water level had been parallel with their sides and had continually to be shoveled return out, rowed out to the steamship of mastodonte to look at, to look at stupidly, and to touch "the civilization," a method of unknown life to Them and therefore akin something to an extraterrestrial visitor A the earth. Although the passengers of the boat eagerly had foreseen a taste of the method of local life, this first encounter had indicated that they considered the experience every little the reciprocal one and, if it had not been for their benign curiosity, they could have been analyzed themselves as the "invaders".

Localized to the confluence of the Amazon and to the rivers of Valeria of da of Rio, Boca da Valeria, translating as "the mouth of the River of Valeria," is the representative of the thousands of small and isolated communities in the pool of where basic, almost primitive Amazon "operating system riberinhos," or "the river inhabitants," to live river and the humid tropical forest in a dozen a Houses more or less in wood sustained by the stilts, their 75 inhabitants that frequent a school and an only churches and Divide a farm of community manioc and the products receive. It can, by any measure, is considered the "true Brazil".

Cover the short distance of the Royal princess To support among the heirs apparent water curving and pink, my to stretch thick penetrated, maredcageuse, the medlasse with his under of double pontoon, bypassing two boats of river before approaching the houses and the stubble huts drinks some and sustained stilts marking the Boca da Valeria "the humanity pocket," that could equally have been considered a "the pocket of (stopped) the time". To the river inhabitants, this had been at the house. This all had been that they had known. We had brought our "ideas" preconceived of house, that all had been had known us. Had or been the same, or equal vaguely close one. Maybe I would find some trivialization elements between the two during my visit.

As I landed on to the small one, some drinks, the floating dock, itself little more than a floating boat, I heard the words, "To Welcome to the jungle"! ae”The last and only one in the English, classifying on to the earth way that had taken to the crowds of villager and the natal children, and quickly went counts that we divided the same desire to learn from and tests the differing methods of life of the other. I had, in the process, used the "bridge" between my world and of the them.

The earth way took the passed the line of choirstalls of stubble roof, that could be considered the market of the town and that posted their local trades and do hand, an economical activity principally targeted to the tourists in the community town. The undertaking process to buy, the sale, and to take advantage had been completely new to them.

The stuc "Escola Sao Francisco Municipal," or "the Municipal School of St. Francis," with a yellow one and the exterior blue windows and some drinks to the closed shutters lacking in any glass, presented a Spartan interior of chairs and the offices, a globe, and a black picture, above which had been hung a banner with the mathematical examples under divided in the four functions, as "adicao," Or "the addition," and "multiplicaco," or "the multiplication," among of others. The school of individual room clearly had served kernel of the community, or the heart, and the chain to the knowledge, and the pride of eruditions and of high degrees had equally been divided and here had been shown by the duties and the drawings hung on the posterior wall, the human emotions that cross the natal distance of my city to the United States to this small town in the Amazon.

Followed and surrounded by the crowds of children as I inspected the room of class and took note feverishly, I felt their interest and their curiosity, but not in my The interest or the activity, but rather in the perceived gifts that I had brought for them and carried the bag that flaps around of my hand. Who all, as the tourists, the potentially unknown carried items to them of the modern world in this primitive puncture of jungle intensified their curiosity, but that they had been simply curious and wished to discover if I had brought does not import what for the had been not different of when I, as a small child, had peeked in a bag that a parent that visits had carried and had asked with Hope, "you To Do has does not import what There inside for me?

The only one "street" town was held before me, a rocky, the earth way clothed with a handful of sustained stilt the structures in drinks considered "the houses," each with a boat of miniature one likes it the one that had met my boat, for the transportation of fishing and short distance, immersed in brown water behind them. They clearly had been the idea of the town of "a car in every garage," although these "cars" had been necessitated them of their method of life.

One of the local women invited me in his house. The locks of door and the police stations had been replaced by confidence here, or maybe the order had been inverse in my corporation. Eagerness and materialism infinitely could have increased well the comforts of life, but these people "primitive" had kept their virtues and their therefore connections with God, of which the accomplishment seemed to avoid the need for these luxuries unless and until they been confronted to the temptation. Sadly, we, as the tourists, represented that.

The house, attained by three crude counsels and some drinks that use the steps and under divided in three pieces, had felt bad rarity: a kitchen with little more than a table, a parlor with an only seat, and a bedroom only identifiable as such by its hamacs walls hung, but a piece of modern civilization, pretence crudely out-of-the place, attacked my eyes and my ears and ruined Which had become my mental picture of life here: A big one, although very quaint television and in black on white. Because of the world I had come from, it could have used a welcomed view; rather, it had served to spoil it only. I had traveled here to learn and to test which had been
New," not to look at that I had already known, and I had given quickly a flick to my eyes far.

The house sported on the other side street a suspended hamac between two stilts to the under of what had been evidently his principal floor and to an of them had been curbed a pig, that could have been the favorite animal of family or the dinner, while the increased vapor of a deteriorated frying pan leaned on the exterior porch behind him.

A perpendicular one, inclining the way took to the community products of the towns receives and the farm of manioc, the two sources of principle of food otherwise that the river itself. The way disappeared then in the humid tropical forest.

The humid tropical forest of Amazon itself, the biggest tropical tropical humid forest of the world trimmed by the Country of mountain of Guyane in the north, the Brazilian central plateau in the south, the Ocean Atlantic in the east, and the Mountains of Andes in the west had been the town "the backyard," and occupies the pool of drainage of the River of Amazon and its tributaries, covering four million square miles in nine countries : Brazil, French Guyane, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Equateur, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. It covers 40 percent of only Brazil. His existence is the temperature result, humidity, and the height of high and stable precipitations.

The humid tropical forest, that covers more than of two-thirds of the pool of Amazon, is an extension of the forest and the dry savannah in the north and the south and the forest of montane in the west, in the Andess. His dense vegetation, forming the multiple level baldachins closed that all prevent but ten percent of the rays of the sun to attain the ground and spreads more than 150 feet, support the life of more of plant between these levels than on the ground itself. His vast flora, doing in average the type of more than 250 tree by the typical half-hectare, includes rosewood, the mahogany, the hedveda, and the edcrou of Brazil.

Several millions of types of insects, the birds, and the others form life, some non recorded calm by the science, include alligators, the anacondas, the constrictor ones of boa, the manatees, the heirs apparent of fresh water, the piranhas, the biggest tortoise of fresh water of the electric eels, the fish cat, and the world, the yellow sideneck directed of 150 book of which the other only habitat is Madagascar. The internal mammals include the jaguar, to hide it, the lazy, the common deer, and the monkey.

Of the 16 millions of people that lives the pool, more than the half lives in the rural regulations, as Boca da Valeria, clothing the river that furnishes their spare tire of salvage of food, water, the ground to plant, and the means of transportation.

Attain the end of the artery of the principal town, that had been invaded with grass and sported a structure of stilt of a beautiful size, I realized that my time and the temporary cultures crinkle suddenly had been broken, as if a car smooths driving suddenly had entered in collision with a brick wall, when the abduction had revealed that coffee water color-**********ant known as the "Amazon " supporting the top raises, the metropolis of clothed balcony designated Royal princess. To break it had more retrieved to my emotions than does not import what of other, my sensations of primitive solitude, innocence, simplicity, and the lack of materiality to which to attach my soul that cracks with the glass comfort. That floating the metropolis done, in one examined few hours, to take me, far location simplicity geographic and emotional the last one of which encouraged of a manner or of another spirituality, and to return me to the comfort and to physical fullnesses, where all my wishes, needs, and the desires all would be met continuation. I looked at down below and overwhelming felt shame and the disappointment in me.

A villager, assistant his boat, invited me in his house where I had met later his woman. The big, craggy stairway and some drinks took to an equally big exterior balcony. His "interior" had been under divided in only two pieces: the kitchen and the bedroom.

Communicate with his woman in Spaniard, that replied in Portuguese, I had learned that the kitchen, clearly well provisioned on these visit in the other houses of town with a center, a table of picnic of tablecloth cover; a big picture to hang jars of aluminum and the saucepans; and a quaint frying pan but nevertheless working calm and lit game, had been the location of kitchen of little, with most of it accomplished Outside because of the internal heat in the structure in drinks, Despite the Fact that all the windows had been paneless.

The bedroom of gauged fort, fresh receipt, the breezes of upset airiness during the night of the river because of his window and his diametrically opposed door (no of which had a shutter of glass or a true, the panel of hinged it that covers), presented a bed doubles almost house affectiant and a hamac. But the characteristic that had seemed the most prominent one and of a manner or of another out-of-the place in this primitive town where to read did not seem to belong to the list of necessary activities of survival as the fishing, to plant, and to eat, had been the book shelf.

"To fascinate, looks at all these books"! I had shouted to the villager in Spaniard. "Why do you have them"? I had wanted to know.

"I am the professor of school of town," it had returned in Portuguese, indicating to the school house down below the way, and it seemed of a manner or of another to adjust that a person of this importance, that had played used a model of role key, would have one of the bigger houses. This man was the leader of the town and the link to the knowledge.

We spent the considerable time that reconsiders the lesson books, each applicable one for a different and printed degree in Portuguese, and divided in the depending questions as to read, in the maths, and in the language. It there even had had a chapter for the Spanish vocabulary.

During the later one, return the walk on the boulder and the red earth tinged to the quay stretch, I surprenamment had discovered a little that the cruise steamship, that should have been clearly visible of this point of advantage, had disparuae”pas because I had inconsciemment or obliterated me psychologically it in my spirit in my quest to complete my picture of primitive reality, but because a flood of brightness of characteristic Amazon had returned the Visibility, and all in him, to the inexistence, And the ground had been metamorphosed in a collection of lakes to vary gauged.

Pull far town in stretch it, I uniformly thought high proportion of children to the adults, the children that, if they belonged to this town or other in the world, had been the hope of the future, but that, through the experience, had stretched instantly hands looking for gifts and money of me and all the others similar fleeting, as if the cruise steamship had represented a periodic Santa and Clear multi-annual visit.

As the people, the river inhabitants had divided the same qualities and the basic characteristics as the remainder of us: the identity, the personality, the talent, the contribution of hope for the world, the hopes, the dreams, and the ultimate accomplishment to leave the tracks in mud when they had attained the end of their ways of life. Their town had furnished the structures brutes, primitive and some drinks called houses where their families had adhered; marketless, the community food for the food of the river and the ground; a school house in which to learn, the party ideas, to grow, and to advance; a church for reconnecter with and loves their more tops be able; and the models of role of parent, the professor, and The priest to take, to inspire, and to imitate, proving completely that, despite the differentiation of geographic locations and the life method disparity, that we had originated all of the same source.

Nevertheless, I continued to set up me on these extensive hands and could not abstain from ask if we, as visit of the tourists that freely gave and taught them freely to foresee, had begun corrupting of a manner or of another and to spoil their primitive one, immaculate, the innocent, the non materialist pocket of time. But I knew of a manner or of another that we hadae¦

I had given myself a bigger point to teaching it town than a weekly, if not monthly, the salary in Boca da Valeriaae”, so in fact there had To any summer salaries la ae”mais justified it as an investment in the education.

Somewhere down below the line, when the process of conversion to the modernity and to materialism had been irreversible, I should look for a new Boca da Valeria. While traveling there, I would learn from new of him and am enriched by him. While traveling there, I again would be also partially responsible of his inevitable change.

As the Royal princess To retracted slowly his ramp of boarding to stretch hydraulically activated the 3 Bridges, the views of the town and "operating system riberinhos" diminished progressively in the size to the panel in heavy iron closed with a net blow!

I hope that you never loses that you taught me today, I thoughtae¦