Dirt Boogers

Salaam!

I hope everyone is well and everything is nice and summery in Canada or wherever the heck you're from.

Just an update:

1. We've started digging our site. I am working on a part of the wall enclosure outside of the city. It's a comprehensive retaining system of specially placed rock intended to keep the city walls up and visitors out. We've also found HEAPS of pottery and animal bones that suggest the site was possibly used as a dumping ground at one point. After all, out of site out of mind, right? HAHAHA PUN INTENDED. I am so funny, eh? :s

2. I have NEVER been so FREAKIN dirty in my life. It is often VERY windy on the tell so sometimes digging can be a nightmare and sunglasses to keep the dust out of the eyes is the equivalent of a 11pm chocolate binge. I could just feel the desert sand literally blowing INTO my EARS the other day. SICK. Our favourite weapon at the end of the day on the bus ride home are baby wipes to take off the disgusting layer of sand and mud that layers the face like a pre-teen wearing too much foundation.

3. You won't see any photos from the tell until I get home. Legally we're bound to archaeological ethics that tell us that no organization besides the actual sponsored website or books of the excavation is allowed to publish any material about our finds, blah blah blah. Even online. Frankly, I understand. If every person that went on the dig published blogs about what they did that day and what they found there would be most likely many errors, like "I found an iron age pot!" when actually it was Nabatean or something and then they publish pictures on a webpage? It's just false information being published about an actual archaeological scholarly site.

4. I am sick of pita and hummus.

5. I am sick of eating chicken and rice on monday, rice and stewy weird stuff on tuesday and some other strange concoction on wednesday.... and then having the menu repeat itself.

6. The first thing I eat when I get home will be a big steak, steamed broccoli, mashed potatoes and fruitopia.

7. I have to go to the bathroom so bad that I don't know if I can finish writing this blog.

8. Farmer tans are the shiznak.

9. I have some awesome middle eastern souvenirs but I can't tell you what they are because *gasps* one of them might be for ... YOU!

I have to go to the bathroom.
Byeeeee

Much Love,
Krysten