today started with a lovely intro to the site and museum by the director of the excavation/our professor; Tony. His stories are delightful, not necessarily particularly on topic but very informative and interesting. We sat in the store room as Tony just kept reaching into drawers pulling out past finds and talking about them. It was amazing the volume of cool artifacts that were just at a hands reach. and that room only houses the finds which are almost ready to go to the museum!
We then had a nice little tour of the Poggio Civitate museum before lunch. We didn't have a lot of time to look around, but I'm sure I'll spend lots of time there this summer - the members of the excavation are always welcome (a nice perk!)
After lunch we had our first trek up to the site on the hill.
I need to work out more.
It is a 40 minute walk uphill through the woods in 30 degree heat (the senior members of the team insist that we'll be able to do it in 20 minutes once we get used to it but I'm skeptical).
Thankfully, most days we'll be walking up there at 6:30 am (rather than today's 1pm) so it won't be so hot which is nice.
Once up on the hill we were given a mini tour of the past excavation and they showed us where we were going to be digging this summer. thankfully there is some breeze that comes in, but it is going to be a hot, hot summer.
It is difficult to drink more water than I sweat out!
I'm assigned to the Magazzino tomorrow which means I won't be digging but working in the lab, I'm pretty excited about that kind of work because conservation is something that really interests me, but I am a little disappointed that I'm going to be missing the first day of excavation with everyone. I'm going to have to wait a little longer to break out my pink trowel!
another less than delightful thing about being on mag duty tomorrow is that I have to get up to help with breakfast.
at 5am. eww
but really can I complain when I live here?
I'm so jealous!!
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