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Week 1

These keyboards are driving me insane! I´m in Nasca now, a bigger town about 3 hours away from the small town of Acari where we stay and work. Acari was a 13-hour bus ride from Lima, for reference. Turns out I´ve been pronouncing it wrong-- it´s Ah-cu-ree, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
We get up around 7 every day, have breakfast, and drive an hour to the site of Amato. We have a 4 by 4 meter unit that we work in groups of three. When it gets to be around 1 or 2, we drive back for lunch, then have a lab in the afternoon, and spend time washing off pottery and things we found. This site is rediculous-- there´s a looted cemetary to the North, where you literally walk across a field of bones.
We´re staying in a hostel run by Rosa and Angel, who are wonderful. Rosa cooks all our meals, which are huge and delicious. Some nights Lidio gives a lecture in the evening before dinner, at which he provides snacks-- which is how classes should be taught, I feel. There are maybe 20 of us total, all girls except for Craig. The girls are all super nice, (Craig too), and everyone´s been super nice and helpful.
Plus, I got to play with skeletons to help me learn to ID bones.
I know this is horribly short, but I´ve gotta run-- we´re going to go grab lunch before taking a plane over the Nasca lines. I´ll drop a line next week when we get back here.
Much love, Julia

posted by Julia @ 8:56 AM