you better have an awesome connection for these!!!
so i have 94 photos. i'm splitting them up into two parts!
each photo is HUGE because i didn't discover they were big until just now and there's no way in fuck i'm going back and resizing them all. i spent too much of the day doing this to do it over!!
enjoy!
We arrived in San Estevan on a bus from Belize City. San Estevan was a little village just north of Orange Walk.
For transportation we rode around in the back of the pick up trucks.
To sleep on, we had a little army cot with a makeshift mosquito net.
In the field, we were all divided into Subops. Our subop had me, Drew, Tom, and our leader Bob. Origionally we also had two other girls, but one left on the second day (her grandmother died) and the other couldn't take the field and spent most of her time in the lab. Eventually she was the one that threw dirt in my face....when I knocked her over she got transferred to a different subop.
This is our unit in the first week:
Drew
Tom
Some afternoons, we'd go down to the New River. It had some crocodiles and was a little poluted, but mostly it was okay for swimming and it was really gorgeous.
Our first trip into town (Orange Walk, Belize's second biggest city)...this is me and Stephanie in front of a really pretty waterfront park
We ran across the "7-11"......
And bought a bottle of rum there
This was a cool looking house in town
On Sunday's we always had a field trip to some Mayan site in the North of Belize. Our first week we went to Cuello. It wasn't very spectacular and I only took one picture.
This was the community center, the building where we ate dinner and also where the lab was.
We drank lots of beer in our free time. Yeah, thats pretty much ALL we did...
On Saturday nights we went into Orange Walk for dinner at Lees Chinese Restaurant (air conditioned)
These are my peeps. Frogger (Jeremiah), Katie, Noah, and me. We're being chipmunks.
Jeremiah, doing his child-molester look
And on Sunday nights, after our field trips, we'd all have dinner at the local Inn that catered our dinners in San Estevan.
This is a really giant moth I saw...you can't tell, but it was BRIGHT orange
On the second week field trip, we went to Ceros.
This is what an unexcavated Mayan pyramid looks like....
More of Ceros...
At the top
C'est moi
The beach at Ceros was awesome
The week before we left for break it rained and rained and rained every day. The mosquitos were terrible and everything was ALWAYS soaked in mud.
We played in the mud (Katie, Frogger and Me)
This was our unit the last day before we left for break, in the third week.
That day, Rob found a cache of pottery in the test pit they had put on the mound of the site...
this ends part I....part II coming up right away...
each photo is HUGE because i didn't discover they were big until just now and there's no way in fuck i'm going back and resizing them all. i spent too much of the day doing this to do it over!!
enjoy!
We arrived in San Estevan on a bus from Belize City. San Estevan was a little village just north of Orange Walk.
For transportation we rode around in the back of the pick up trucks.
To sleep on, we had a little army cot with a makeshift mosquito net.
In the field, we were all divided into Subops. Our subop had me, Drew, Tom, and our leader Bob. Origionally we also had two other girls, but one left on the second day (her grandmother died) and the other couldn't take the field and spent most of her time in the lab. Eventually she was the one that threw dirt in my face....when I knocked her over she got transferred to a different subop.
This is our unit in the first week:
Drew
Tom
Some afternoons, we'd go down to the New River. It had some crocodiles and was a little poluted, but mostly it was okay for swimming and it was really gorgeous.
Our first trip into town (Orange Walk, Belize's second biggest city)...this is me and Stephanie in front of a really pretty waterfront park
We ran across the "7-11"......
And bought a bottle of rum there
This was a cool looking house in town
On Sunday's we always had a field trip to some Mayan site in the North of Belize. Our first week we went to Cuello. It wasn't very spectacular and I only took one picture.
This was the community center, the building where we ate dinner and also where the lab was.
We drank lots of beer in our free time. Yeah, thats pretty much ALL we did...
On Saturday nights we went into Orange Walk for dinner at Lees Chinese Restaurant (air conditioned)
These are my peeps. Frogger (Jeremiah), Katie, Noah, and me. We're being chipmunks.
Jeremiah, doing his child-molester look
And on Sunday nights, after our field trips, we'd all have dinner at the local Inn that catered our dinners in San Estevan.
This is a really giant moth I saw...you can't tell, but it was BRIGHT orange
On the second week field trip, we went to Ceros.
This is what an unexcavated Mayan pyramid looks like....
More of Ceros...
At the top
C'est moi
The beach at Ceros was awesome
The week before we left for break it rained and rained and rained every day. The mosquitos were terrible and everything was ALWAYS soaked in mud.
We played in the mud (Katie, Frogger and Me)
This was our unit the last day before we left for break, in the third week.
That day, Rob found a cache of pottery in the test pit they had put on the mound of the site...
this ends part I....part II coming up right away...