Gabster

The work we are doing in Pompeii has been so much fun. When Katie invited me to join the team I simply assumed we would be volunteers, but in actuality, Katie and David are working to create a field school to work here in Pompeii. So while we are helping out as volunteers, the importance is really on educating us in technique and post excavation processing. We are their first group of students for this and hopefully attributing to them blazing a trail with a new field school organization. The house we are working on is the Casa delle Vestali (the House of the Vestals) and was originally one smaller house that eventually bought out many of the surrounding shops and houses and renovated into a larger house, probably owned by a wealthy family. The house ... read more

The Basque Country has been treating me so well! The people have been very friendly and patient with my poor Spanish, the food has been excellent, and the land is so pretty. Kim and I started out in the town she had been living in the past few months, Bilbao, then visited Guernica for a few hours, and ended up in San Sebastian where she is living now. Bilbao was so busy! And there are children EVERYWHERE. They are all dressed so cute too, just like little mini Basques. The first thing I ate was, of course, a kebab. We used to eat them all the time in Italy and I have had some serious cravings back home. It was just as greasy and delicious as I remembered, and also made me feel just as crappy… ... read more