The weekend was fun. Since most of you are probably more interested in the dig, I'll be brief about it. Saturday I slept in until about 10 in the morning and it felt so good! After that I went on a walk with one of my friends, and we explored Stromness, or at least one street of it, (which is really a fairly large percentage in this case.)
We bought a few souvenirs for family and friends at home, and we ate out for the first time since being here. We had a very nice day. When we got back to the hostel around 3, I fought with my "international phone" which is neither successful at being international, or a phone since it won't receive calls. I also tried to find out about church, and how to get there. I found the last name of the man I needed to contact for that information, but when I looked in the phone book, there were six different numbers for that name. I started at the top of the list. Luckily that was his brother, so eventually things worked out there.
Sunday, as you might have assumed, I went to church. They do not have a building for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here, so they meet in a small room, down an alley. There were 5 other people there besides myself and four of them were on the program. Their hymns were acompanied by a CD player, and I was younger than all of them by at least 25 years. All of that was really neat and I had a great time. I don't think I will be able to go this Sunday because we may be taking a field trip, but I do not know where we are going yet.
On to the dig today... Now that I have been moved to structure 14, I have a new supervisor. I was working right next to a student who goes to the Orkney college here, who has been on 2 dig this sumer already and working on this one since the season started. He moved much faster than me, and the supervisor always complimented him on how well he was doing and how level and clean his surface was, then the supervisor would tell me that I was going too slowly and that it was expedient that we work quicky here (as if the stones hadn't been fine for the last 5 thousand years). Anyway, he said I should be clearing a square meter in about 10 minutes which is completely impossible! My professor said to me that he must have been joking, but he wasn't.
After that, I worked extremely fast and hard, trying to move along. I'm now excavating on what may be a wall, or stone paving. The supervisor is excited about that and I think that's why he is rushing us. Anyway, my back is extremely sore this evening and I truly hope that I can move in the morning. I'm literally concerned that I might not be able to. I hurt my back earlier this spring and was bed-ridden for several days. Now would be a bad time for that.
I didn't find much besides a few pieces of pottery and a lot of stones today. Today made me question my plan to be an archaeologist but I'll get over it.
Hoping that tomorrow will be a better day! Goodnight.
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