Today was our day in the field. After we finished breakfast, we walked to the site, which didn’t take as much time as we thought it would. When we had got there, I had realised I forgot my camera, which made me sad for a short while. My solution. Asked Naomi to borrow her camera for the day. We were assigned square-partners and I got to be with Shamim, a friend I made on the Facebook page before the course started. We got one of the sites closest to the prime datum (the measuring point that doesn't move). It has A LOT of driveway cobblestone. It is a nightmare! We believe it may be a driveway that was made in the last 50 years or so. We and our neighbouring classmates (2 other pairs) have almost got to the end of the cobblestone layer. We found a few small artifacts. I found about 4 pieces of mortar, 2 piece of brick and 2 pieces of white-ware pottery. We did a lot shovel shining (1) and screening. Most of the time we were screening though. It was really hot, and it started to rain. It started with a few showers here in and out. Then, it was raining buckets. We all were running under the tent. Lots of funny moments. We decided to end it for the day, and walked back. The walk back, was longer then it was in the morning. T.T Well, we got back (gained 2 more additional mosquito bites, totalling to about 6 now) and we all took showers. After the showers, most of the girls in our group was washing our mud and sweat covered clothes in the sink. At this time the other group came in with cuts on their hands from flintknapping. They also got to use glass in addition to chert. The only thing that was significantly different from the two groups was that Group A have a tendency to get more hurt then our group. Oh well. Nicole seemed to get a large amount of glass shavings on her hand, that had cut her. We had dinner, then a debriefing of what happened today. We also were told we were going to get another assignment tomorrow. YAY! …

Right now, I’m in the lounge once again and from what we are told there is supposed to be a Northern Lights sorta thing today or tomorrow. There may also be a meteor shower on the 11^th or 12^th. We will see if we can see it this year. I hope so, it would make a great picture.

~Alex