Spaghett!

So the past week or so has been a huge mess of work and adventuring. Luckily we've finished one of the two presentations we have to give as a part of our seminar, so that's good. Our next set of presentations are tomorrow morning. After that, we're just going on field trips and preparing for excavation month, I can't believe it's already almost here!

Hanging out in the car on the way to the rug factory.

Yesterday was fun, we went to a local village site, Kellis, in the morning, and went to a local rug factory in the afternoon. The rugs were of all sizes and designs, made by local women of the village. They were so pretty, I bought a bunch as gifts for some lucky friends. ;) Tomorrow we're going to another archaeological site in the afternoon and on Monday we'll be heading to the remains of an ancient Roman fortress.

Sunset over Mut

Since Arabic lessons are officially over, (our teacher Manal will be dearly missed!!), we were able to watch the sunset from the roof last night instead of the norm of spending time in the library. It was pretty fantastic!

Sunset on the roof!

Despite having tremendous amounts of work for the past couple of weeks, we've managed to have an awesome time so far. We've already established a series of jokes including "spook hour" where anything goes in the dark hallways of our dig house at night. (Terrifying..) Furthermore, (to explain the interesting title of this post) the youtube video "Spaghett" has become a daily source of hilarity in our lives, you'll just have to watch it for yourself. I think it's from a show called "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job!" or something like that....anywaaaays.....all in all, I'm loving Egypt. It'll only get better!

Group picture in the Library!

In other news, our student film we decided to make while in Egypt is officially in the works. One of us is a NYU Tisch kid, and we're taking advantage of his artistic film skills to make a mummy movie which tentatively is called Death Explorers: Amheida's Curse. Without giving too much of the plot away, it's about a study abroad group that accidentally stumbles upon a book of the dead, resurrecting some desert mummies. Original, maybe not. Amazing? Definitely. Stay tuned for more!


-Christina