Hola!
It seems I have plenty of free time, much more than I anticipated anyway. We were introduced to our course today and our free time is basically after 4pm on. I also fixed the comments section on here so you don't have to be a registered user to leave them. We were all introduced to the rest of our group today who showed up at midnight yesterday. They all had a horrible ordeal getting here and all of them lost their luggage and are still without stuff. I thought my traveling here was hecktic... Anyway there are 8 of us in total and we are all girls. Except for Rex who lives with us but he's busy working on an under water survey of a ship wreck off the coast. So our day started at 7am and took our ecomuseum bus to our dig site which is 45 minutes away. We had several lectures in the morning based on the site and the island. Fernando, the museum director, gave the talks in Spanish and one of the archaeologist translated. Menorca means minor which is the sister island to Majorca which means major. The museum itself is an old house that has been concerted. The view is.... Indescribable. The museum looks out onto the Mediterranean which comes in like a bay because the island is curved. To the left there is a penisula with an old english fortress and to the right penisula has an old light house built in the 1800s. Off the coast of the lighthouse there is an abundant of ship wrecks where other archaeological digs are taking place. I am really hoping we can visit the site at some point. Our dig is close to the English tower. The archaeologist told us it's a 10 minute walk which was a total lie because it's not 10 minutes and it isn't a walk. It about 15 minutes and it's a hike. There isn't a path, it's all just plants and many rocks so you have to watch that you don't twist or break your ankle. That and there are evil plants that stab at you as you walk by. Once on site, though it is worth it. I looked out over the cliff and it looked like something out of tomb raider because I swear I have seen this exact location in the video game. The dig itself is brutally hard. There are rows of grave already excavted but we are digging up new earth in search of more. I used a pick axe today for the first time. As out of shape as I am and as exhausting as it was, it was worth it. I loved every second and yet I am glad for the breaks we had. The rest of the day consisted of hanging out.
I also forgot to mention that on the flight to England I saw snow peaked mountains!! Anyway, that's all for today, ciao!
Love,
- Liz
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