Dear Mom,

I’ve been lost in this forest for 47 days since the plane crashed here. Now, I am feeling depressed. It has been really hard out here in the wilderness. At first, I had lots of hope that a pilot would come and save me, but now I am hopeless and all alone in the dark. You are probably wondering how I managed to survive 47 days in the forest. Well, I had motivation from my teacher Perpich. With Mr.Perpich’s motivation, I built my shelter with the tools I had. I  found food that made me sick for a while, like some of the berries that I first tasted. After a couple of days, I found a raspberry bush that didn’t make me sick and I had tons of raspberries to eat. There have been really hot days here but I am lucky that my shelter is near a lake I have water  to drink  in the boiling weather. That’s why I built my shelter to hide myself from the sun and the rain. Once when I was sleeping there was a porcupine right next to my leg so I kicked by accident without noticing the porcupine struck me in the leg. I had pain in my leg for a few days from the porcupine. Once again when I was sleeping I heard this slithering noise dragging across the sand and in to the lake I was frighten because I couldn’t see what was going on so in the morning I went searching for clues for what type of animal it was soon or later I have found turtle eggs 4 inches under damp sand it was exciting because I had knew it was safe to eat cause of this TV show about turtles I never knew it was going to help me. So I decided to eat one turtle egg everyday it might last till the rescuer comes saves me. After a couple of days I had lost hope… I lost hope for a rescuer not finding me because a rescue plane flew past me and did not see me which made me feel like they wouldn’t save me. After that I had felt empty and suicidal if the rescuers can’t find me what would I do  in this forest I can’t hold the painstaking feeling every day.  now I just feel like I should be done and done to end it all and stop this madness in my brain but its to hard to even try .