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>> Lorena Schmidt: This summer
I went to Lovuain-la-Neuve,
Belgium, and I worked on the
Walhain St. Paul project, a dig
at the castle Walhain.
This was something I've always
thought about doing, and I'm
lucky that I got to do it
because now I know it's
something that I want to pursue.
I learned that it's a lot of
physical labor, but it's
something that you
can get used to and
it's really rewarding
in the end.
Hopefully I will one day be in
Europe doing medieval
archaeology and finding
something amazing.
I was originally a history major
and after this trip I switched
to anthropology, because I
hopefully one day want to be
an archaeologist,
whether it's in the
field or working in the museum.
This trip basically
helped me figure out
what I want to do with my life.
We usually arrived, and we
grabbed our tools, and then we
usually had an area that we were
supposed to work at.
Certain days we were assigned
artifact cleaning so we would be
doing that for an hour or two.
Usually after that, relaxing was
getting dinner with our friends
or sometimes we
would go into town.
There was an Irish bar there
that we would like to go to and
hang out, and kind of relax
from the long day.
They have scholarships,
especially through Eastern,
that you can do.
You can look into study abroad
scholarships, and I think that
if you can, you should go,
because it is an amazing
experience and I do
not regret it at all.
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