Digging, digging, digging. Okay fine, I actually didn't do that much digging today. I spent the previous two days in the lab because of my ankle (which is still a bit swollen and a delicate shade of turquoise), scrubbing bones for probably about 10 hours and a lifetime of carpal tunnel. That being said, getting to go back to the site today absolutely thrilled me. Overall it went fine; it was a little bit difficult getting over walls in my square and navigating around rocky areas, etc., but I didn't hurt my ankle any more and I did get some things done. Yesterday I came to the site because we were taking pictures of the students and staff from the excavation's consortium schools for the press release photos, but had to leave afterward because Jodi didn't want me working. Today I got to do things, so that was nice. Working in the Bro square always makes me cheerful. Everyone slings good-natured insults back and forth, throw around subtle (or not so subtle) digs at each other (heh, I'm punny), and overall has a ton of fun. The original group was Josh (name so far undetermined), Tony (Baba), Xander (Brother Bear), and Austin (Brosaic). I somehow became a Beta Rho as well, and recently, Bailey and Lisa have started working in the square as well. Today, Tony was hurt, Bailey worked on breakfast, and Lisa was in the lab, so our numbers were few.
After excavating today, we all had pottery washing in the guest house courtyard, and got picked up by the bus at 3:30. We hiked a bit to the Wadi Amud prehistoric cave, then went to Tiberias for a couple of hours. Now I'm not a huge fan of Tiberias, but I will admit that when Josh and I had gotten falafel for 14 shekels from a stand right off of the street, having watched the man make it and hand it to us steaming hot, and got to sit in the shade eating the savory goodness...I forgave Tiberias its feel of being dirty and gross. Then we got shawarma, and then I got another falafal to bring back for Tony, who forwent the trip in order to rest his injured back. I almost ate Tony's falafel on the way back, but managed to hold out (mostly because the few bites of shawarma were so darn delicious and filling). This evening we had a mosaic workshop - it was basically arts and crafts for students doing archaeology. We got squares of some string mesh thing, and a massive amount of pottery bits, and we just made our own mosaics. I had literally no ideas for several minutes, so after watching Josh start on his Greek inscription and Tony get halfway through his portrait of his mother and Jocelyn begin an abstract series of swirls, I decided to throw together a basic shape - which I did. Tomorrow I will inspect my mosaic heart to see if it somehow improves its appearance overnight. Until then...bedtime. I'm on breakfast duty tomorrow.
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