Digging!!!

We started our first week digging!!! it is so great to be back, despite all the weeding and surface cleaning. Our area is very different this year, with Israelis, Americans, and a German. She's so cute, and i am now learning German, at least a couple words every day. we had a field trip Gezer with the director giving us a tour, amazing! We actually started the really excavating a day earlier than usual, so it was pretty great. unfortunately the pot is not out of the ground yet :( I got put on another project, which, though hard to leave the pot, was still cool. i worked on revealing a whole side of the brick that divides two of our squares which the pot is placed near to. i got to pound at some dirt a little, so that was good. i finally got to start digging my pot Fri. it was super exciting, but then science got in the way... we had to stop for someone to take samples and then it was decided that we had to dig a section around the pot, so i started that, got a little ways, still haven't reached the bottom yet, which means it's a pretty big storage jar. But we will definitely have it out by the end of the season! Today i woke up still on super early dig time, and went up to the roof to watch the Hung out at the Jerusalem Center again today after church. It was so nice to rest and the Chadwicks are awesome. I had dinner and went to the fireside. The fireside was great, Sahar. the RS president spoke on charity. Then I sat around on their couch for a while longer till they brought me back to the old city and now i'm back at the austrian, ready to go to bed. yep, pretty exciting day :) it was very restful at least and next week i actually have some real plans.