Well, this week was slightly more eventful than last, but not by a lot :) This paper is killing me. So Monday I had class all day. We have lecture in the morning and then have 5 hours to kill until lab time. Its quite annoying, but hopefully as the term picks up I can get a lot of work done during that time. We were looking at ancestry this week in human anatomy. The books that we had during lab weren't very good, but we did our best to pick out the ancestry of the different skulls we were given to look at.
Tuesday was another long day. We have zooarchaeology in the morning for 2 hours and then a class on human use of animals in the afternoon for an hour. So we have to be on campus from 10-3 with a two hour break between classes. Again, hopefully that will turn into a work time and not a waste of time :)
Wednesday I spent almost the entire day reading articles for my various classes. They were actually pretty interesting. For my zooarch class we have to read the English Heritage guidelines for archaeology, which are based on the laws about archaeology here. Kind of like the section 106 laws in the US. We are also talking about what role we play in rescue archaeology and other private archaeology contexts as zooarchaeologists. So that's pretty interesting. Then I also went to the store to get some gifts for my friends whose birthdays were this weekend. I ended up with some pretty cool stuff too.
Thursday I went to campus to meet a guy in my class to work on our stats assignment. Since we're doing the same site we thought maybe if we worked on it together we could get a bit more done. We were pretty much wrong, but I did come up with one idea to present when I had my meeting with my prof so I didn't look like a complete idiot. That was good. After that we went into Bournemouth and had dinner at Coriander. Its a mexican place and everyone told me how great their sweet potato stuff was, so I wanted to try it. It was good, but didn't really taste mexican, so it was a little weird.
Friday we had the humans and animals class at 9am. We had to bring a calculator so that we could make some graphs. So I had purchased a calculator on Wednesday when I was out, but hadn't actually tried it out. When I tried to use it instead of giving me an answer when I tried to divide to numbers it just showed them to me as a fraction. So I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure that out and then ended up having to get out my computer to do some silly little calculations. I have now conquered the calculator, but it took about 30 minutes of work yesterday with the users guide. Ridiculous! After class we had our meetings with Mark (our prof) about how to do our stats paper. So now I'm on my way to finishing that. He gave us worksheets on how to do some stats tests and told us which ones would be useful. So that was awesome. Then Friday night my friend Danielle cooked dinner. She made alfredo sauce from scratch with broccoli and peppers. It was really good. And she gave me the leftovers for lunch the next day :) Then we headed up to beer pong for awhile.
Saturday I went to the gym and then worked on my stats stuff all day. I got a bit more of the paper written and got one stats test completed. So woo hoo! Then I had a birthday party for Sytske and Stine. We had cupcakes and presents and wine and then headed out to Poole to go dancing. The place we went has pretty much the worst dj ever and some reliably bad music, but it was fun. Its really loud in there though, so we ended up only staying a couple of hours. Ah well, it was fun.
Today the plan is to run the other stats test and start writing up the results and get the paper pretty well underway. Hopefully that gets accomplished. Next week I'm going to Bath so there should be some pictures to put up. We're taking the train up there, so that should be exciting! So until next week, take care and hope to hear from you soon.
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