A Tough Week in More Ways than One

This week was certainly more stressful than last. For starters we were stuck in Ossaia for the entire week. Ossaia, as I have mentioned, is SMALL. There is one telephone, and it is in the one bar in Ossaia. "Amelio's" (the bar) has turned into the Canadian students second home-away-from-home. We go there for gelato, bottled water (surprisingly inexpensice 0.80 euros), and (my fav) latte caldo ( hot milk, really what we call a steamer). Anyway, we've been digging in the trenches on rotation all week. My trench partner and I have been moved to a new trench EVERY SINGLE day. Not a happy experience for us as we do not get to see the evolution of the trench (which makes keeping the site-journal tough), but also, the people who are regularly working in that trench are not very happy for us to come in and work on it. People have become SO territorial over "their" trenches... it's making things become difficult... anyone with an imagination can understand this: 16 girls in ONE room, seeing each other 24/7 for 3 weeks... doesn't exactly spell out FUN. Anyway, some cool things that I've found this week in the trenches include: a bronze ring, a chunk of red-painted column fluting, and lots and lots of brick chuncks. We are in Cortona this evening for Friday night dinner, seems like a bit of a pattern forming, but all the same it is nice to get out of Ossaia once in a while. My plan for the weekend is to go to Siena on Saturday. So far the weather has not been too hot, we actually had a bit of a cold week, and it rained on Wednesday which meant everyone was confined to the dig house... I certainly will be appreciating my home when I get back to Edmonton! Ciao.