LA CUEVA DE LAS TRES VENTANAS {THE CAVE OF THE THREE WINDOWS}

 

me getting off the bus after a long day studying caves.

In my sixth week at my school we went on a field trip to a cave called La Cueva de las tres ventanas  in the Granada province, and man was that a memorable trip!

            This cave looked tiny from the outside but it was actually gigantic on the inside!
There were so many paths, yet they all led to the same place in the end—the beginning. You could take the left path to start with and come out the right path. We started at the beginning where a boy from the school was looking over the edge—he must have felt queasy or something because the next minute he went over the edge and scared the wits out of everyone. He then got out of the little hole and went to the doctor with my math teacher, Lola.

            We next went through the cemetery. Way back when they threw the dead bodies there and tied their hands and feet together, thinking that the person would come back to life. But that never happened so people cleaned the bones out when they were sure no one lived there anymore. I have to say though, they left some skulls to show that people actually lived there. Ewwwwww!!!! Rotten skulls!

             Then, on our way back we saw a bat and a rock that was posed like a lion if you looked at it from a certain angle. Then we went to a little building where you got to hold a golden eagle. Then the people who worked there taught us to make a pre-historic knife, which I still have today and use for cutting tape and bananas.

my knife.

            Like I said before, that was a memorable trip to the full extent because it was very fun and I learned a lot. Even though it was a bit scary and disgusting, I hope you liked it!

Birthday! Carnival!

            We have been here in La Herradura for about a month now and I have some updates to tell you about! I hope you like them!

            Carnival is a big celebration here in Spain that lasts for about a week. Here in La Herradura it was a huge deal! Carnival was awesome! Kids and adults were supposed to dress up in costumes. My friend Stella (who was visiting at the time from Switzerland) and I dressed up as cats.

 

Then we marched along the street beside the beach. At one point we got separated from our moms and we were shepherded into a group of little kids who spoke Spanish.

 We thought this was kind of funny, seeing that these kids were about four so therefore we were a lot taller and bigger than them. But also my dad was standing on the outside so he got a picture of us trying to sneak away from the group. Saturday was the last day and there were so many costumes! Crayons, Dorothy with the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion, and Toto, Lady Gaga Disney princesses, angels, brides, and Barbies with a dog.

              In my school at La Herradura I have made some new friends and I have a surprising discovery to tell you, you are allowed to chew gum at recess whereas at Grout, it is forbidden to chew gum. And speaking of Grout, I have recently received some letters from my classmates about my blog. Thanks guys!!  You’re really cool! One thing that isn’t so cool here in Las Gaviotas (my school) is, you don’t have cubbies for your books so every day I have to haul home a 2-ton backpack. We also don’t have lockers for our jackets so I have to put that on the back of my chair.

             A few weeks ago I went to a birthday party and we had dinner and talked for a bit and then, finally, CAKE!!!!!!! We sang happy birthday in Spanish and then we ate the cake. The only difference was, at the end instead of just saying thank you, we shoved the leftovers of our cake in each others faces as a way of saying, “ thank you for being here, TAKE THAT!!!!!!” That was the funniest part, I have to say.

            Here are some observations that I have made about La Herradura! I find these things very interesting! I hope you enjoyed this blog post.