I love digging... especially with a pickaxe :)

Yep, still alive and everything's going great! I finally get to hack away with my pick axe, these last couples days have been so fun, exhausting, but super fun. Today was my second day doing a second, afternoon shift, it makes for crazy time, but i love it and we have some exciting things going on. and right now there are like 4 flies flying around on my computer, it's very annoying. Last weekend i had some more adventures. I stayed at the citadel youth hostel right off Jaffa road in the Old City. It was decent, all you really need is a place to sleep. I slept on the roof, they give you a small mattress, blankets, if you're lucky you can find a pillow (which I did the second night) and has an amazing, amazing view, especially and sunrise and sunset. you also get a wonderful concert of church bells ringing from the buildings right to you that wake you up every hour or something like it starting at 5 in the morning. yep good thing the sunrises are pretty. At church on saturday i met a girl visiting for a couple of days and then later that night saw her at the citadel, turns out she had slept and was sleeping there the same nights up on the roof with two friends, funny how things work. I actually had to walk to and back from church, the students were all up at the Galilee, lucky. reminded of how grateful i am for a ride every weekend. Coming in and out from the dig to jerusalem too. I had to do the buses for, it wasn't horrible, but i definitely missed our nice air conditioned, fast car rides. Didn't do much the rest of the weekend, but rest and sleep, and show a few friends around a little. Saturday night we went to Ben Yehuda street, where there's a party every weekend at the end of shabbat, so that was fun. And i got some super delicious, expensive food, and some of the most delicious ice cream in the world, i love it! We had a field trip to Lachish, a tel not too far from Gath, it's a pretty famous one that i've been wanting to go to, so that was great, you could still see the huge palace and temple structures from the canaanite and judahite periods, and the remains of the huge siege ramp the assyrians built when they attacked, awesome! Only a week and a half left, crazy, it's gone by so fast, I'm not ready to leave.