Dear Diary

06/17/1943

Dear diary,

Today was the worst day of my life here at Auswitch. I was awakened by a Kapo abruptly in my sleep at around 4 o'clock am. I was too exhausted to work anymore but, I had to if I wanted to survive. I have eaten almost nothing today. For Breakfast, they gave all of us bread and a brown tasteless drink. I was disgusted by what we were served for breakfast. I saw five men getting exiled by the Kapos because they pushed those five men and they had dropped their ration.

      Then we started to work, some prisoners received a shovel and pickax, others with just their bare hands. Luckily for my I got those two items. Most men who had just their bare hands were beaten until they died. I felt anger inside of me for a while but, I had to keep my mind off that and keep working hard. I had to dig trenches and carry heavy stones to build up the trenches. There were prisoners everywhere on the ground all bloody.

           After all this work I was exhausted and felt like I was ready to die. Maybe one day we'll be saved but for now, I got to to work, work, and work.

       

      

       

The Phyllobates Terribilis

The Phyllobates Terribilis is the most poisonous frog in the world. They are an endangered species and are found in the forest of Colombia.

        

        The reason it's so poisonous is because the skin is densely coated in alkaloid acid. The poison  prevents its victims  nerves from transmitting impulses leaving muscles in an active state of contraction, which can lead to heart failure.

         The frog is estimated to have  one milligram of poison, enough to kill 10,000 mice. Now that's a lot of mice. They're diet contains of many kinds of small insects like ants. The frog is the man source of the poison dart for the natives to hunt for their food.