Well, another week has passed. On Monday we had our human anatomy class as usual. The lab demonstrator was back from New York and was in a bad mood as usual. My group asked her to help us with sexing our skeleton to make sure that we were right and she yelled at us for not doing it earlier even though we had and were just asking for confirmation. Then later in the day the whole class got an email from her yelling at us for someone having put a pair of muddy boots in the lab. She claimed that micro-organisms from the mud could have gotten out and into the boxes of bones, which is weird because we all go in there all the time with our shoes that we wear outside, sometimes in the mud, and there is no protocol for keeping dirt out of the lab. And to top it off, she followed it up with another one the next day saying that if we are in the lab we are suppose to monitor who else is in there and be sure they have permission. Since when do the students have to monitor that kind of thing. There is a lock on the door. If the person in there has the code I assume they are allowed. I'm not going to start questioning everyone who enters the lab. How ridiculous.
Tuesday we had a butchery demonstration in our animal class. A guy who did his master's here in 2002 came in to show us how to butcher a deer. He was a butcher before starting grad school so he was interested in seeing how butchery shows up in archaeology. It was very cool to see because you never really think about someone actually chopping up the animal, we just look at the marks on the bones. But really, a good butcher would leave almost no marks because hitting the bone with the knife just makes it dull. So that was a really cool day. My friend Stine took pics, so I may get some of them from her and put them up next week, but I don't have them for this week. Sorry.
Wednesday I went to lunch at the Thai restaurant in Poole with a couple of friends. As we were walking over there it started to snow. It was crazy! It would snow for awhile then the sun would come out and then it would snow again. Really weird.
Thursday I didn't do a whole lot. A book I ordered was being delivered so I had to stick around my flat waiting for that. The front desk won't accept packages so if we aren't here when things are delivered we have to wait for them the try to deliver it again. This place is really stupid. I don't know what they pay that front desk lady for. She doesn't do anything.
Friday I got one of my papers back. I was a bit disappointed with the score so I think I'm going to try to talk to the teacher this week. It wasn't a bad score, but his comments on what I could do better didn't really make sense. He suggested that I should have covered 4 additional topics, but we only had 4.5 pages to work with so I don't know how I could have fit any more information into the space allowed. Then Friday night I stayed in and painted my nails and watched a movie.
Saturday I went with AWESOME Day Trips to Dorchester, which is a town about an hour northwest of Poole. AWESOME Day Trips was started by some friends from Corfe house so that we could plan places that we want to go. So it ended up that 10 people went. It was a bit cold when we left, but by the time we got there is was a bit warmer and the sun had come out. There are a lot of museums in Dorchester, but it turns out that they are all pretty expensive for the tiny places that they are. So we didn't want to go in any of them. Instead we headed for the path along the river. It was a bit cold, but I think in the summer it would be really nice. Then we headed for the Roman villa. That was pretty cool. It was excavated in the 30's I think it said. The cover over the top isn't original, but was put there to protect the murals that are still on the floor. After looking at the villa we were a bit cold and hungry so we decided to head to a pub for lunch. The one we ended up in was pretty nice and had a really good lunch.
After lunch we decided to head for Maiden Castle, an Iron Age Hillfort outside of town. We didn't have our map anymore, but Kevin, our "guide" (a Canadian who lives down the hall from me) said he had onein his head so we followed him. So we followed a man wearing a red baseball cap over the hood of his sweatshirt and ended up in a new subdivision being built. So I don't think we were anywhere near where we had planned to go, but we did see a very cool old fountain and a closed chocolate shop. Then we tried again to head to the hillfort. After walking for about an hour though we decided that maybe we didn't want to see it so much afterall :) So we headed back toward town to go to the nearest pub. A few of us stopped at Maumbury Rings as we passed them so that we could say that we'd at least seen one cool thing ;) That was very cool because the way it is built if you stand in the middle and talk in a normal voice people around the outside can hear you. Plus its Neolithic which means it was built using antler and bone tools. Those huge mounds were built without shovels or buckets. Amazing.
Well, I suppose that is about it. We didn't see a whole lot, but it was a fun day. Today some of my friends and I are going to a movie and bowling. So that should be fun. Well, here's the picture link. Enjoy and I hope to hear from you soon.
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