Atapuerca

I have no idea how to spell it, but yesterday my class took a field trip to the oldest place in Europe, Atapuerca. It's only a few miles out of Burgos and it's the oldest part of Europe because they found the oldest human species there. While waiting for the bus to pick us up, this girl named Paula and I listened to my ipod and danced like crazy! It was so nice to be myself again! She was a little embarrassed to dance in front of everyone, but I didn't care. Then when I got on the bus I was a loner like always so the teacher told me to sit next to this girl who was also by herself. I found out her name is Lara and she's also a new student. I talked to her the whole way there and I can tell she's going to be a good friend, even if she's from the other class. When we got there the tour guide showed us the places where they discovered the bones and the tools and little ancient animals. I understood most of what was going on but I was too cold to care. It was pretty cold yesterday, but on top of that it was super windy like always! Oh and we were outside for the whole six hours! We then went to the park where we pretended to be neanderthals and we made tools out of the rock, painted on a wall with the paint that came from a certain type of rock, we made instruments out of wood and string, we hunted with different types of weapons, and then we finally got to make fire! We went into a hut to make the fire and took forever but when it finally started we all swarmed to it because we were so cold! Since the guy only used horse hair and no wood, the fire didn't last very long which made us all mad! The last part of the tour was to learn how to look for fossils and bones. It was super super boring! Then I rode home with the same girl and we got involved in a newspaper throwing fight which didn't make the teacher very happy! Overall it was a pretty fun day and it would have been tons better if I had feeling in my fingers, nose, ears, toes, etc.