Pirates In the Caribbean

Hello, adventurers!
There aren’t really any Pirates, but I am finally on the ship, and we are in the Caribbean! We are on our way to Salvador, Brazil (the Brazilians spell it “Brasil”), the 3rd largest city in the entire country! From there, I’m going to fly to Manaus and spend three days exploring the Amazon rainforest. Did you know that the Amazon makes 20% of all the oxygen in the world? That means that when you breathe five times, one of those breaths is from the rainforest!
Right now, our ship is sailing along the coast of South America. Yesterday, we stopped for gas in Puerto Rico. Putting gas in a ship as big as the Explorer took all day! We had a great view off our sun deck on top of the ship.
Puerto Rico is actually a “territory” of the United States. That means that Puerto Rico is part of the USA, but isn’t a state; just a little country of its own that follows some of our rules.
We also passed by the island of Martinique, in the Caribbean Sea.
Even though Martinique is close to the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, it is actually part of France! Most people on Martinique speak French, or their own special island language called Creole, which is a little bit like French and African languages combined.
Next time I write to you, I will have some great stories from Salvador, Brasil and the Amazon rainforest!