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This is where we live!
  Rachael, Andrea and I share this small hut in the Amazon Rainforest.  Houses in the Amazon are small because people only go indoors to sleep or when it rains.  As you can see, like all the homes in the Amazon it is raised on a platform because the river floods in the rainy season.  The poles on which the home rests are made of native trees, and the roof is made of palm fronds.  No matter how hard it rains we always stay dry because the palm fronds are woven together so tightly. 
  In our hut we have hammocks similar to these that we sleep in.  If you look closely at the picture of our house, our house doesn't have any windows, so each hammock has a mosquito net draped over it to keep out the awful mosquitos and other bugs that like to bite us at night!  We don't need the windows because even though it rains every day, the rain comes straight down and also because it stays warm all year.
This is the Rio Negro or the "Black River."  We live right next to this river because we depend on it for many things.  It provides us fresh fish to eat, and water to drink.  We use the river for transportation and we wash our clothes in it.  Like most of the houses in the Amazon we have no running water and we have to get all our water from the river.  We even take our baths in the river!