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Things have been sooooooo busy lately! Finally have a box started with things I'm setting aside for Greece and Ireland, and I'm thinking about how I'm going to pack everything. I've also been chatting back and forth with one of the girls who'll be at Keros, so I'll kinda know someone before I get there.
This evening we had elections for Archaeology Club, and I was elected as the new VP for next year! I'm looking forward to it...we've got a great e-board set up and I hope we'll be able to draw in more people and offer more events. Between now and Tuesday I have to brainstorm about what events to add or modify, because we have our funding meeting that evening.
After elections, Dr. Clare Calcagno gave a lecture about Maritime Archaeology. She talked specifically about working at Wadi Gawasis (on the Red Sea, and the site where my Egyptian archaeology professor is digging) and at the Uluburun Shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. The two sites are interesting in that they both represent big firsts in ancient sea travel: Wadi Gawasis has the first remains of Egyptian ships that traveled on the Red Sea, and Uluburun has the first evidence of sea-going ships ever (there are earlier deposits of cargo, but no actual pieces of the ship). Hearing the lecture made me want to do my huge research paper about boat construction in Egypt instead of the royal necropolis at Tanis, but I think I'll stick to my original topic.
Things are really picking up now...the next time I take exams, it'll be finals time. No pressure, right?
Tales from the Trench
All covered in dirt!
12 April 2007 @ 10:06 pm
Current Location: Boston
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02 April 2007 @ 01:03 pm
So, I thought that while I'm waiting for my laundry to finish, I'd post here with an overview of my summer dig schedule.
I start out by taking my finals early (ugh) on April 30 and May 1, around all my regularly-scheduled classes. At 9:15PM on the 1st I'll be leaving for Heathrow airport, where I'll get another flight to Athens, arriving there on the evening of the 2nd. I'll stay overnight at a hotel (it was going to be the British School at Athens but they're full that night), then get to the docks at Pireaus earlyearlyearly the next morning. Then it's a ferry to Naxos, and from there to Koufonissi. Dr. Kersel said she'd be waiting at the docks on Koufonissi to help me get to the guest houses, and from then until June 12 I'll be digging to my heart's content at Keros and Dhaskalio Kavos.
June 12 everything wraps up, and sometime around then I have to make a presentation to Prof. Colin Renfrew (he's kind of a big deal in archaeology). June 13 I take a ferry back to Pireaus, stay in Athens at the BSA, and catch a midmorning flight on the 14th to Dublin. Eoin will pick me up there, and drive me to Kilteasheen. I'll be digging with my buddies there for three weeks, and then I'll stay after a few days to hang out with Eoin and go see some more archaeology in the area. I fly out of Dublin on July 11, and then into Boston, where I'll catch a flight to Harrisburg and stay with Mom and Emi for a bit. Then, of course, it's back to Seattle to see Dad and work at Pier 1 until September rolls around.
I'm really excited to be able to dig for 9 weeks this summer, and that'll bring my "net dig time" to 11 weeks before my Junior year--something not a lot of people have a chance to accomplish. The opportunity that Keros presents is phenomenal, and I owe it all to Prof. Luke for mentioning my name to Dr. Kersel. And since my goal (at least at this point) is to work in Ireland or the UK, I'm so excited to be heading back to Kilteasheen. Something I didn't expect was this intense desire to continue excavating at Kilteasheen in particular, and to see what else we uncover over the years.
Plans like these make me feel invincible!
I start out by taking my finals early (ugh) on April 30 and May 1, around all my regularly-scheduled classes. At 9:15PM on the 1st I'll be leaving for Heathrow airport, where I'll get another flight to Athens, arriving there on the evening of the 2nd. I'll stay overnight at a hotel (it was going to be the British School at Athens but they're full that night), then get to the docks at Pireaus earlyearlyearly the next morning. Then it's a ferry to Naxos, and from there to Koufonissi. Dr. Kersel said she'd be waiting at the docks on Koufonissi to help me get to the guest houses, and from then until June 12 I'll be digging to my heart's content at Keros and Dhaskalio Kavos.
June 12 everything wraps up, and sometime around then I have to make a presentation to Prof. Colin Renfrew (he's kind of a big deal in archaeology). June 13 I take a ferry back to Pireaus, stay in Athens at the BSA, and catch a midmorning flight on the 14th to Dublin. Eoin will pick me up there, and drive me to Kilteasheen. I'll be digging with my buddies there for three weeks, and then I'll stay after a few days to hang out with Eoin and go see some more archaeology in the area. I fly out of Dublin on July 11, and then into Boston, where I'll catch a flight to Harrisburg and stay with Mom and Emi for a bit. Then, of course, it's back to Seattle to see Dad and work at Pier 1 until September rolls around.
I'm really excited to be able to dig for 9 weeks this summer, and that'll bring my "net dig time" to 11 weeks before my Junior year--something not a lot of people have a chance to accomplish. The opportunity that Keros presents is phenomenal, and I owe it all to Prof. Luke for mentioning my name to Dr. Kersel. And since my goal (at least at this point) is to work in Ireland or the UK, I'm so excited to be heading back to Kilteasheen. Something I didn't expect was this intense desire to continue excavating at Kilteasheen in particular, and to see what else we uncover over the years.
Plans like these make me feel invincible!
busy01 April 2007 @ 04:45 pm
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