Today we were given some shocking news.
due to unreasonable demands by the University of Bologna (who holds the excavation permit for us to dig at Ostia) their partnership with the institute where my program is terminated. Which means that we can no longer excavate.
Darius (Darius Arya from those tv archology documentries) who is the program director told us this and my heart dropped. BUT things have actually turned out for the better, using his contacts in Italy he has found us two other digs to participate in with other universities. One is St Omobono right in the city and the other is Gabii which amazingly was my second choice to apply to this summer, I chose Ostia because it meant I was going to live in Rome but I thought that the Gabii site was cooler. That means that I just got the best of both worlds. I'm so excited, but we don't start excavation until thursday
seriously though the Gabii site is kind of a big deal in the archaeological world. super cool.
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