Saturday, January 3, 2009

Happy New Year from the Judean Desert!


Today I had a a great time. I went to the the Judean desert with my friends Norma Franklin and Shimon Gibson to help Shimon measure an Iron Age building in the area of Buqeah. We found some unrecorded features and measured lots of walls. The best part was being warm! I'm going to try and bring my earlier activities up to date since arriving in Israel on Nov.1 very soon. It has been a very busy year for me that has involved publishing 2 books, writing some articles, organizing the 12th International Aegean Conference: DAIS, The Aegean Feast that brought 48 speakers from 14 countries to Melbourne, seeing my husband join me in getting dual Aussie/US citizenship, going to a conference in Cyprus, digging in Israel in July, then returning for 4 months in November, breaking my toe last February, and of course, teaching my students. I plan to gradually update my activities chronologically.

2 comments:

Katherine and Pippa said...

Hi Louise

Have bookmarked your blog now so that I can have a leisurely browse through it gradually.

Kate

Pearl Maple said...

Great blog posts you have going on here.

Always enjoy your voice on the AustAmerican yahoo site.

Have fun with your adventurous travels.