Now that Regatta is over, I can see how dead Carriacou is without it. During the weekend and on Monday, there were all night parties, food vendors everywhere, all the shops were open nonstop. There were awesome competitions...beer drinking, donkey races, running, sailing. I met some cool people, including locals who were decidedly un-sketchy and also a really awesome girl who does Peace Corps here. But post-Regatta Hillsborough is pretty peaceful. At least now I can actually sleep though the night without the windows of my hotel room vibrating from the bass!! Our last day on site was Tuesd [View Full Entry]

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Sorry its been so long since i put up a blog. The internet here was being sketch AGAIN, and I just now got it to work again after being almost all week without it. Excavation went well this week...we were only rained out on Monday. I was at grand bay all week and I even got to work on a human burial with Scott B (the bioarchaeologist from Eckard who is here with us). The burial was really interesting...there are TWO skulls and one body! Scott thinks it could be evidence for ancestor worship in the caribbean (no, not a two [View Full Entry]

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HEY ALL!! Tuesday through Thursday I was at Sabazan, the other site on the island. This site is headed by a UW phd student that is doing a project about faunal (animal) remains there. The set up is a lot different than Grand Bay. We only have 5-6 people so it is a lot less crowded/chaotic. We also have much smaller and deeper trenches...instead of one big 5X5, we have 4 small 1X1s scattered throughout the site. They are dug straight down, so they get pretty deep. The ones I was working in were over a meter! That means that you [View Full Entry]

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Here are all the pictures from the last entry! I'll fill you in on the adventures at Sabazan (the second site on the island) tomorrow! -ALR [View Full Entry]

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Ugh this is getting kind of frustrating. The lack of good internet here is positively killing me. I wrote and ENTIRE blog….like a good page and a half…and the internet cut out so I lost it. LAME. The internet here has been really sketchy lately. I can’t get internet at all on my computer so I can’t upload pictures for you all. The internet went down here for a day or so because of the storm…since then I can’t get my computer to get it. But, tomorrow I'll try and get our resident computer whiz to fix it and get you [View Full Entry]

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Sorry its been so long since my last entry, but the internet is slow as crap here and uploading pictures takes several hours. But heres some updates on my exciting life... I don't think I have ever seen/heard rain so intense as it is here. It rains so hard that you can't sleep because of it pounding on the roof or go out or anything, then in about 15 minutes its sunny out. Its like the weather has ADD. It doesn't thunderstorm though, just RAIN in sheets. It rained pretty much all day today which kept us from going out to [View Full Entry]

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We started digging on Monday. Our buses picked us up at 8 and we took the narrow, winding road over the mountain to Grand Bay, our principle site. A word about the drivers in Carriacou: theyre completely NUTS!! They speed and take curves super sharp. They also honk at EVERYONE...I guess it's the polite thing to do when you know everyone on the island. Anyways, we got there and started clearing the site. That involves moving all the tree limbs, leaves and other debris to get down to the bare dirt. Then the fun part began: excavation. I'm not really sure [View Full Entry]

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GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF NUTMEG!!! Getting to Carriacou has been an adventure, to say the least. My trip began well: my flight to Miami was fine, as was my flight to San Juan. The flights were made infinitely better by the fact that my lovely parents upgraded me to first class!! The first two pictures on here are of the food.. salmon salad for lunch, tortellini with mushroom cream sauce for dinner. Infinitely better than paying for peanuts. But, the trip took an interesting turn in Puerto Rico. At the end of our flight, our plane couldnt park at the [View Full Entry]

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