26.6.04
The First Email: Another Year, More Dirt
hello, all
as per usual, i will be leaving for southern italy in a couple of days. as i'm sure most of you are aware, i've made a habit of digging with an archaeology group (the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii or AAPP) for the past three years, and this summer is no exception. i'll be weilding a trowel and directing about 12 students as an excavation supervisor, the same position i held last year. also, i usually send out emails about once a week, talking about what's going on in the dirt. this year will be a little different. several people have urged me to start a blog about the whole thing (mostly envisioning epic, indiana jones-esque adventures). so i've consented, but i think i'm going to do a little of both. i'll still send out the emails, but they'll also be posted on the blog, possibly along with pictures and more indepth yammer and certainly links. all that fun blog stuff.
so until august 14th, i'll be reachable by email with varying reliability as the little internet shack at camping spartacus is rife with mosquitos and is often busy (two computers serving 120+ people is quite a bit of competition), or by regular pen on paper, stamp on envelope mail to this address:
Claire Weiss
Gruppo Archaeologico Inglese-Americano,
Camping Spartacus
Via Plino, 127, 80045,
Pompei (NA)
Italia
send me mail! it's rather a lot like getting care packages at college, we live for real live mail. and i promise to reciprocate with a postcard.
ah, and the blog url:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cweiss/claireinpompeii
this is a very all-inclusive email list, so if you havent heard from me in a while, hi! and let me now should you want to be removed from the list.
-claire