03.07.2013: Testosterone overflow/ Too many men!?

03.07.2013: Testosterone overflow/ Too many men!? It's a Wednesday and we wake up at 6-ish. 25 days to go. We have been here for two days but already we feel, well I feel anyways like I have spend a lot more, staying at twilight near the river. We're not having burek today (sad face). Corn flakes from a cup and a quick coffee. We're back in the cars for more traveling, this time further away. We're going to see where our other half is. Other half? It's the boy group of undergrads from Cardiff Uni. We took the “scenic” root through a few, and a few more villages, with a bit of the big boss almost getting us lost. And then we arrive (more than 2 hours and a very dodgy toilet later) and it's a field, and it's hot. Not boiling hot, yet. Some of us are genuinely happy to meet the guys again. Some not so much. And some just didn't really care. We've come to learn... Some waiting for the big boss ended up with the big group being divided. Some of us girls ended up at the second test trench (there was a first one too, a very intriguing never-excavated before Vinča culture site and so on (go to the official blog if you need more serious reading). So 5 of us ladies ended up at the cool trench, not under the tent we helped to set up earlier, under a very eager sun and with some highly motivational music. Archaeology can be a very complex, weird thing, because it doesn't always look like archaeology. As we were helping set up the test trench I couldn't help but notice the person in the combine harvester who looked at us from the adjacent corn-field as if we were a bunch of morons getting fried in the sun. As the spoil heap kept getting bigger, and the combine harvester person kept looking at us in a weird way, I kept thinking how much I enjoy just sitting there going though lumps of soil and looking for anything really. This is a second day of something. Everything is well when it starts well, or slowly- I don't know that one yet. But there is time to find out. Another long car ride got us safe sound and hungry (and a bit smelly) to our dinner. You don't need to hear the rest because it's not interesting yet. Give us a few days and the testosterone and we'll see. Note: the stuff in the cup-boards in room 1: 3 condoms, one massive crucifix, one hip-flask, one cigar, a mouse, a light bulb, a jam jar, various anonymous wires, a calculator and some CD folders with no CD-s in them.- To be continued...