Ciao!
I would like to inform you all that I made my very first Archaeological discovery today!
I know it's blurry...sorry. But it's a piece of pottery, possibly Etruscan! It's most likely the rim of a vase! AHH!!! How exciting! Never thought a broken piece of clay could be so exciting, huh?! Yeah it is!!
Obviously, we worked in the field today! Not our field, though. There's an Italian guy, Claudio, who's helping us with our site, and basically we were loaned to him for a couple of days to help clean up his site. Oh well, it was fun because there were things like this everywhere, and it was so exciting to find them!
We started out pulling weeds, but then a girl named Caty and I got to work in a trench! It had already been dug, and basically, we were just clearing out all the loose dirt, but when we were done, Sylvia (our field manager) said we did an amazing job and showed it to the whole group and made them clap for us! It was pretty awesome!
I'm trying to post mo0re pictures but blogger is being dumb. And, all the instructions are in Italian, so I can't figure it out. I'm going to have to work on that when I have more time, because I have about three minutes left right now.
Anyway, very exciting day! I got hot and sweaty and dirty and slathered on sunscreen and got even more dirty and I couldn't be happier. I love it here.
7 comments:
How Exciting! :-))
Imagine the things you'll discover when you get to "your" dig location!
A shard of pottery from thousands of years ago doesn't peak everyone's interest, but it's so neat to read your excitement! You are clearly a natural born archaeologist... Who knew?!?!?
I'm very excited for you and proud of you! Keep blogging!
- Dad
Oh my gosh! That is is f'ing cool! I am majorly jealous~in a good way! I'm so glad you are having fun and making new friends! Way to go on the compliment situation as well-doesn't that make you feel good?! Great just Great! Yay!!!!!!!
Keep us posted!
Yeah you dirty, filthy bitch!!! You dig those trenches!!! I cannot wait for our meeting in London and I'm so jealous of you right now! You're not missing out on anything here. Congrats on it being as exciting as you expected it would be!
look out world here comes Oklahoma Julia!!
That's great! I'm excited for you as well! How's the living sit going? And the Italian people? I think we should see some photos of them....shirtless.....umm...what was I saying? Anyway, glad you made it there, and looking forward to the next update. :)
Hey Julia! What's happening? It's been a week! We're breathlessly awaiting an update! :-)
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