diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8f494a1..4de1f16 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ Removing global state, and adding pause and resume functionality.
 var AWS      = require('aws-sdk'),
     zlib     = require('zlib'),
     fs       = require('fs');
-    s3Stream = require('s3-upload-stream')(new AWS.S3()),
 
 // Set the client to be used for the upload.
 AWS.config.loadFromPath('./config.json');
 
+var s3Stream = require('s3-upload-stream')(new AWS.S3());
+
 // Create the streams
 var read = fs.createReadStream('/path/to/a/file');
 var compress = zlib.createGzip();