A collection of anecdotal shots from this weekend:
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| View from my window |
Beautiful sky on Friday evening. On Saturday there proceeded to be a massive thunder and lightning storm for much of the day and night, which kept me indoors reading and grad-school-researching most of the day. However, Friday and today have had gorgeous weather, so I've seized the chance to be outside when possible:
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| The dry moat on the north (gardens) side of the castle |
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| Elizabethan garden |
This weekend was the alumni reunion event, celebrating 20 years of the Bader International Study Centre. One of the events was a dig with Dr. Scott, so we went up to Brickyard Field, a site on the castle estate that I hadn't been to before. It was perfect for a short timeframe and just-for-fun thing like this, since it's a very shallow site- everything is in Context 1, and we only had to dig down about 4 inches before we starting turning up broken pottery, tiles, and brick. Dr. Scott has excavated here before, so he knew where we had the best chance of finding things.
One of the alumni is a volunteer for Queen's University radio, and she interviewed me onsite about my experiences here as an intern. I've done TV interviews before thanks to dance, but never radio, so that was a cool new experience :)
I was informed today that I'm going to be one of three opening speakers (along with Dr. Scott and Dr. Stanley, the executive director of the BISC) at the Canada Abroad conference that Dr. Scott is organizing. I've spent part of tonight writing my speech. I'm very excited but apprehensive as well- I don't mind public speaking, but I have no experience with something on this scale and I know (and have been gently reminded by Dr. Scott's colleagues) that this is an extremely rare chance for an undergraduate student, so the pressure's on to make it good! :)
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| Fox in the field outside my window! |
I love that sky photo - gorgeous ! And very neat to catch that fox trotting by too !
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the alumni at the mini-dig today were excited to find so much pottery. Those blue plate shards are really pretty ! Did anyone ask to ask to take "their" finds home with them ?!
Don't forget about what may have been your very first tv interview (age 10 I think ?), with Gloria Macarenko on the CBC National News when you were representing BC at the National Historica Fair in Montreal ! I will always remember her saying at the end of your interview "My, what an ARTICULATE young lady she is !" :)
You're going to do a great job with your conference speech Hanna !
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Woo-hoo!! Just when I think your blog can't get any better than the day before, you come up with today's. So many highlights and such wonderful news to share (and of course your pretty pictures)! Good luck with you speech. Of all the public speaking you have done over the years, you are an old pro at it now. And a radio interview too? How cool is that?
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Love your photos and updates, Hanna! What an incredible experience you are involved in! I have no doubt that you'll do an awesome job of giving a speech at the Canada Abroad Conference!
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