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Processing data
We have hopefully worked most the kinks out of our system (such as glitches with the GPR, etc), and have set a goal of 5 grids a day. This means we measure out five 30x30 grids and run the Mag and GPR over them. And hopefully process a good portion of the data as well. This week we made good progress, even completing over 5 grids some days! This weekend I stayed at the Kibbutz for the most part, but we went out to dinner in Nazareth of Saturday. It was delicious! I really like Arab food. I had grilled chicken in an orange glaze, but everything people ordered looked very good! We will probably go back there again. Now that JVRP has left, there are only 12 of us total, so we go out for dinner quite often. It makes things fun! Sunday we went to the beach near tell Dor. The water was nice and warm! We saw several jelly fish on the beach though, and a couple in the water, so we may not be able to swim much more.
Sunrise over Mt. Tabor
This week has been only 4 days since we are taking our weekend on Fri-Sat, instead of Sat-Sun. This is because next Sunday a lot of elementary children from the community are coming for a tour of the tell. We are going to have several stations they visit, where we explain through a translator what we are doing. I will be helping with the GPR explanation. I think it is a good idea to have community day and involve the local people, but it will be a bit of a challenge to explain well, and to keep all the kids in order. We will do it two days, and will have over 300 kids combined!

There are still about 4 weeks until I come home, which feels like a long time. I’ve sort of settled back into the mindset of being here, trying not to anticipate home too much. It is especially difficult not to count the days and hours during the work week, when our routine gets a bit monotonous. However, I realize there is a lot to be thankful for still, and I’m trying to look at the bright side and enjoy the little moments like Nazareth and Dor.


Kids playing at Caesarea (A couple weeks ago we went there)

Caesarea

Emily and I at Caesarea

Doing Magnetometer

Our friendly goats and the tell behind

Devotions looking out over Nazareth 

I built a sand castle at Dor this Sunday :)

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