14/01/10

Not much to say from today really. Although I could find stuff if I had the energy. Done more digging. Innit. I've also been showing Leila what to do, and helping Matt teach her how to plan and level, and why we do it. So he's making me go back tomorrow because I know what i'm doing, instead of going and starting at the museum. I was bored of it by lunchtime today. Tomorrow is going to be so tiresome. The strat is complicated, and confusing, and neither of really know what is going on. But I've been correcting him on a couple of things so I guess I remembered more than I expected to. I put up the dumpy in no time and planning was a lot easier than I remember finding it. Probably because we're doing it at 1:10, and molas was always 1:20 I think. I have trouble with scales sometimes. So yeah, he asked me to go again tomorrow, and said I knew what I was doing despite claiming not to before we started. Which is not technically true. I said I didn't like excavating, and that it's been a couple of years so I wasn't sure how much I would remember. But at least I seem to be doing an ok job.

Back tomorrow, maybe we'll finally figure out what is going on. I just hope that the headache I have that's been building since lunch has gone away by then. Must be up early to make sure I get a large cup of coffee in the morning. I don't think only having tea this morning helped.

Also I have so many injuries. It's just silly. I'm covered in cuts and grazes from god knows what, and puncture wounds from acacia thorns and cactus spikes! I leant on an acacia thorn earlier and it went in my finger. They have this coating which makes it sting even more than it should. My whole finger went numb but very painfully so, for about 10 minutes, and then was absolutely fine. Now I can't even tell which finger it's on.

Right, see, I managed to ramble on about a pretty boring day. The most trying part of which was having to wait until 1.30 for lunch. We were expecting it at 12.30. We were hungry. Very hungry. But I must stop eating so much. Honestly, if there aren't least 3 carbohydrates it just isn't a Kenyan meal. maize, chapatti and potato for lunch. Only pasta and matoke for dinner though. She wanted to do ugali as well but matt convinced her that the pasta would be enough. Thank goodness!

Bed now. I really hope I get an uninterupted night of sleep tonight. This place is far too echoey.
Night all.