Egunan! (Basque for good morning! I've tried good afternoon and its too difficult)

After a weekend in Pamplona and San sebatian , we got back to digging.  My knees hurt but the work feels worth it.  In Pamplona we went up the street anx saw where running of the bulls takes place (also ate and drank where Hemingway drank no biggie). Later that night me and some people went up to San Sebastian to sit around the beach and watch old people get topless.  Not really, but its pretty city.  My basque friend described it as a San Francisco of Spain (or Navarre...).  Description pretty much spot on.

Before I get to the food and the archaeology I figured I might describe this strange group I'm in cahoots with.  First I'll describe the old guys.  First there's Tim who was a nice guy (rip).  Then there a nico, the most stereotypical new York Jew I've ever met.  Then of course there's charlie the racist southerner, its sort of fun to here's his stories about all the wetbacks and black that inhabit his hometown.
The four girls all are pretty nice.  There's solange from UCLA, Marian who's Greek, Brooke who likes cats..., and Ruth from Ireland.
Then heads of the dig are a little strange though.  First theres the crazy British guy, Rob (pretty sure he is somewhat legitimately insane). After there's oihan (oy-yan) who is the basque native I work with mostly doing archaeology.  We pretty much just talk about terrible Spanish basketball players (cough Victor Claver).  After you got Emma the associate director who is only 25 and actually very attractive (for some reason from her emails I imagined a 40 year old hag).  And finally you have the director Fran who might have the most hilarious accent when speaking english.  Everything that guy says is pretty ,much gold.

The basque cooking is incredible.  Since basques are matriarchal all the men cook and act like housewives for the most part.  Fran has told us stories about how when women come in the kitchen they just stand there and boss the men around.  Apparently there is a gentlemens club where the men go to cook away from the women, you know, instead of gambling and buying hookers. So the cooking is great.  Every night we have different basque dishes such as chistoro, chorizo, soup, and lots of bread.  Last night we had squash soup that was really good, along with some chistoro.

As far as the digging is concerned, on the pit we have mostly found roman coins saying back to the 1sfirst century ( today we even found a gold coin, which was very much intact).  It seems that the building that we are uncovering was burnt to the ground and we are pretty Mich excavating the remains from it.  Lots of wall remnants and burnt bricks that are being uncovered.  As of right now the site does not make very much sense but it seems to be making more as we dig further.  Apparently according to oihan this happens a lot with sites and they just need to be interpreted as is.

Overall though things are going great.  No further incidences and things have been going smoothly.  My knees are a bit achy from all the bending over but I seems to be getting a workout in during the day.  By the end of the day I'm pretty tired fornthr most part so sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I miss everybody at home.  Really miss understanding people and speaking English but surely I'll be back home soon enough.  I hope everybody is doing great I'll I'll talk to you soon.

Cheers