I became more aware of the people around me,
and maybe their lifestyle… just seeing people,
three people crammed on the back of a Moped
trying to get down some street in China, just…
it’s not something you see here. And when
I finally got to China and I stepped off the
plane and I was actually on Chinese ground,
it was amazing. Being an archeologist is not
just all about digging with a trowel or just
scraping away at something. It takes a lot
of planning in order to have an excavation,
but in the end, when you actually do find
something, it’s awesome because it took
you three hours to actually be able to take
it out of the ground and hold in your hand.
I never expected in a million years that I
would have gone to field school, I would have
loved it, I would have even wanted more to
become an archeologist, I never thought I
would have gone to a conference last year
presenting research, I never thought I would
go to China and then go back to China the
next year. I never, as much as I wanted maybe
some of the things to happen, I never thought
it was actually possible.
