How’s it going? Has school started yet? It’s really early as I’m writing this. We’ve woken up at seven everyday but Saturday for two weeks (Sunday the other students wanted to go to the beach. It was in a town called Cádiz: very nice, met some Australians, listened to music in the beach shade). I’m getting used to it but also feel like I’m fighting demons — especially since it’s the Spanish custom to have dinner at the American bedtime. Lots of restaurants close for the afternoon and don’t open again until 7-8. Got scammed out of ten euros at a restaurant last night — a reminder from god that you don’t Have to eat out this much. I don’t really want to — but everyone else does, and we kind of developed a cousins-on-vacation hive mind.
The excavation has been nice. It’s sweaty with the tombs but so is everywhere else. We cleaned/documented the contents of lots of graves and took two bodies out to clean and organize the bones by type (hard). I found my first ever archaeological artifact while doing this: a fish bone! We also found some metal buttons and rosary beads (everyone in Spain is Catholic). The body we just finished with was extremely delicate so the cleaning process was very stressful. We think it was an older (arthritis) woman (something about bones).
I also got some tourist stuff. Mom has fridge magnets for days. Lost my fan and bought a tourist one with a cat: now immediately identifiable as a foreigner to anybody.
Time skip, just finished for the day. We’re now all getting coffee, teacher included. He’s a nice middle-aged man. I’m going to try the milkshake he likes. We just cleaned a bunch more bones. I’ll send you pictures when I’m back in England, since there’s lots to look through. I love you so much. I think you’d like it here.
With love,
Alice