marine fauna, insects, shells and birds and other topics like human evolution.
As I started to write, I felt as if something was …. WATCHING ME? I looked around me. The deer bone model was a bit too real and its eyes …. Hey wait a second! Since when did skeletons have eyes? In my hurry to get away from it, I tripped and caught something to steady myself. Unfortunately, that something was the one of the deer’ s antlers which to my surprise twisted to the right and the deer started to move.‘ Haven’ t been awake for quite a long time,’ said the deer in a deep voice.
My initial reaction was that of panicking. I mean, you don’ t find a talking deer everyday, yes? I wondered why it had decided to come awake for my honour. As if on cue, the deer said that it was going to tell me a bit about prehistory in Malta. I really wasn’ t in the mood for a lecture but I decided not to comment. Who knows what the deer might do if I refused?
‘ As you know, Malta was connected by land with Sicily. At that time, Ice Age was occurring so animals which lived in Northern Europe started to travel southwards in search of a warmer habitat. Most of them, including my parents came to Malta. But then disaster struck: Ice Age came to an end and the snow started to melt, becoming water. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea became flooded with water and Malta got separated from Europe, trapping animals which were in Malta here. We died due to lack of water, food and space and our remains got washed in Ghar Dalam from where we were excavated.’
Suddenly I felt someone shaking me and telling me to wake up. What had happened? I had fallen asleep on the bus and now my friend was waking me up. Well it had been a dream( even though it had been an educational one!) All in all, it had been a nice experience!
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