One Week Down (pics update)

Today I got to excavate the pottery that I discovered yesterday on the edge of the midden. It was in three rather large pieces, and after I had it fully cleaned and as much dirt away from it as possible, I got to lift it.
To lift pieces as large as these (about 4x4'') we work away dirt underneat it so it is on a thinpedistal, then try to cut through the pedistal without any of the pottery cracking or crumbling. Martin said not to worry about it if they cracked, because it would be very difficult to get them up without it, but I did it. He was pleased. (Martin is the site supervisor of the midden. He is the one who gave us the lecture on the Iron age Brochs in Scotland. An AMAZINGLY cool lecture.)
When my pot was free and the ground under it had been leveled and cleaned, I had nothing more to do in the midden so I was moved to work in structure 14 which is newly excavated this year. Last year it was just a bunch of grass. The level of structure 14 is only down about a foot from the surface. Since I was moved, I'm now working with people who are notin my group from Willamette. Most of them are nice, but some of them are a little stand-offish because we are foreign. At least 70-80% of the workers on site are foreign, so they should lighten up, but I understand their feeling. They couldn't do it without outside help, but they wish they could.
Today was the first day that it actively rained on us. It rained fairly hard for a while,, but not enough to "abandon site" as the site director calls it. If the dirt gets muddy, then the previously visible striations in the ground become smeared together and we cannot see how the site has shifted since the Ness was built. The striations are a big part of making sense of what we uncover.
All the others are watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics but I'm tired and would rather sleep than watch them. I can always find the best bits online later. I don't know what I will do tomorrow during the day, but most of us are going to go out to dinner and to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink, but it would just be wrong to be in Scotland and not go to the pubs. They are social centers more than somewhere to just get alcohol. We can do that at the grocery store.

Also, I have uploaded my pictures on my computer and found out how to upload onto my blog posts, but for some reason they are not actually loading. I suspect it is because the internet is extremely stressed tonight because it is a Friday night.