A Week in Review

What a week! I’ve been so busy!

There wasn’t so much exciting stuff happening in our trench this week (Ζιτα, Δύο) mostly just messed up inverted stratigraphy, with two separate sections because of the wall smack-dab in the center. BUT in the other trenches Simon and Cassandra uncovered the rest of the skeleton buried under the wall, and Vicky and Rebecca uncovered the body in rest of the tenth Pithos. Two skeletons, with full sets of teeth, oh man it was soo soo cool. In our trench we found little shards of pottery, big rocks, little rocks, dirt clumps and more rocks. We do have part of a Pithos right on the road, but I have a sinking feeling most of it will be eroded because of the road and the big rocks which seem to have only fell into only our trench. Luckily, Geoffrey said we could stop messing with changing baskets (every time we either find change in the layer of dirt we are digging, or a burial or a wall of some sort we have to change baskets so we know where it came from) and finicky stratigraphy and just dig it up. Hopefully we find something soon.

As for last weekend, it rained for both Friday and Saturday, and when it rains here, it storms not exaggerating. Irregardless we went out anyway. On friday Leesa, Mike, Shannon and I went to Skala a little town about 20 minutes from where we are staying. Originally it wasn’t raining when we left so I didn’t bring a jacket -.- which was silly. Even though it was really, really cold we still got some good souvenir shopping done (I got such a pretty ring!) had some good food and taxied it back with our crazy driver by about 6ish. Pretty much did the same thing on Saturday but in Poros, except it rained harder and I had a raincoat this time. My Puma’s were soaked for almost 3 days to put it in perspective. We did also go to Zanza Bar that weekend to, we were all a little pooped so it wasn’t as exciting as the first time, but still super fun.

Now I’m almost up to date! Yesterday we did one of our bi-weekly field trips to “Ithaca”. There isn’t much evidence supporting the idea that Modern Ithaca was Homer’s Ithaca, where as there is more evidence that it is actually Kefalonia (but you didn’t hear that from me). We didn’t get to spend the entire day there, our ferry was at 8:30am from Sami, and the last ferry was at 3:30pm. We just visited two little towns and the major port city on the island, not any sites, which really sucks but the weather was decent and the pictures turned out well.

Tonight we are going to the hippest club in range, for no particular reason at all other than to just party for the last time for the next few weeks and because we get to sleep in on Sunday. :D