Getting some serious workout now, and I find it's already getting easier to go up and down the hills of Porolissum. By the end of the trip I'll have much more endurance. I've been digging in various trenche; digging the dirt in one, defining the walls in another and defining a rubble patch in the third. The third trench is most interesting because the Romanian workers found two limestone columns and that was quite neat to work with. Hopefully on Monday, I'll be able to get back in there and work on it more.

In addition to work, there's been some partying. On Annie's orders we went down to Otilia's bar on Wednesday (and got caught in a downpour, it's been raining a lot here in the evenings; luckily the days have been mostly clear). A couple of people got pretty trashed, and another two were just very drunk. The rest of us managed to stay on our feet (and I got lots of good pictures!)

Last night was the Independence Day/Canada Day feast. We ate mici, hamburgers, corn and potatoes. Best of all, we also got gogosi, these delicious little donut-type pastries. Val was happy to break out her bottle of maple syrup and it was enjoyed by all. There was plenty of beer to go around too. Ursus is okay, but Timisoreana is best.

A reporter came down to write a piece about the site, and Eric says it's the best article that Porolissum has gotten. It's also the best because my name is in there, the only one of all the students! You can check out the article here. It's in Romanian, but you can probably find a website translator on the web somewhere. My name is misspelled, but nonetheless, it's in there.

I've got to get going now, but I'll try to write again soon.