daily schedule...

what you have to conform to to make it in this business...i.e. Bronze Age (c. 2000 B.C.) archaeology in the deep south of Turkey:

daily work schedule for Sundays through Friday:

4.45am hit the snooze alarm on your alarm clock...it is still dark outside, why should you be awake?

5.00am scramble out of bed, into clothes and to the bathroom...and notice that the sun is barely up yet

5.10am scarf down some "first breakfast" which may be bread, tomatoes, jam, chocolate and tea

5.15 say goodbye and 'kolay gelsin' to the excavators headed off to the field in the truck or hop a ride if you want to spend the morning digging in dirt and sweat!

5.40 If you have stay at the compound then you better get to work asap...no time to waste sooo...off to study ceramics, bones, metals, to conserve big pots, to register all the little figurines or to illustrate all the tiny ceramic sherds and make them look like a big, full piece of pottery.

8.30 time for "second breakfast" prepared by the couple of women from the village so there is at least fresh bread now and sometimes eggs in addition to the tomatoes, cheese, jam, chocolate and tea.

9.00 back to work!

11.00 break time....relax, take a catnap in the hammock chair in the sherd yard or pet the dogs or drink more coffee or tea or walk to the bakkal and buy some soda and candy

11.20 back to work!

1.30pm lunch time...finally...

2.00 nap time for most...computering, showering and gossiping time for others

4.00 tea time in order to recaffinate after the exhausting nap in the heat

4.30 back to work...again!

7.00pm dinner time and the end of the work day finallllly...

rest of the night --> backgammon, movie nights, chatting, facebooking, sunset watching from the roof, beer drinking, sleeping....life here is pretty slow so even on our nights off not too much excitement occurs. Fridays at least end after lunch time and the afternoon is partly spent by going on a mound tour in order to catch up on the excavations and also by cooking and bbqing for friday night dinner.

Then Saturday is the day off so sometimes a fieldtrip is planned or just a trip into town or else we are lazy and just lay around the compound all day and do nothing. I'll work on adding pictures here or on facebook soon but just wanted to let everyone know how the past 5 weeks of my summer have been going.

It's 4.30 now so end of tea time and back to work I go!