They Made Me Work For Free (Indiana Jones Didn´t Prepare Me At All)

 Hii!
I have to say, this was not my first archaeologic excavation or my first unpaid internship. It was however my first unpaid archaelogic excavation. These manadatory three weeks of hard work kept me off the internet - I woke up at 6 AM dug up to 15:15 relaxed a little bit, fell asleep and repeted. 
I tried to go out during those days, but fot the first half I was sooo dead I kept being unable to even crochet properly :D.

The site is near my apartment, I actually worked there for a few days during last summer. Most of the other workers are my classmates from department of history, which is nice. For the first two weeks, we were digging this bore. I think we barely got under recent layers in my first week.
Since archaeology doesn´t really care about your gender and our only guy in the team was kind of a dick, me and Daja ended up doing a lot of work over our strenght limits. My hands and back still hurt from 7 consecutive hours of shoveling and I will forever be afraid of wheelbarrows. Have you ever tried carrying one that is full of dirt up the hill on a wooden "highway" that keeps slipping under your boots? That was my highway to hell. 

Both of my soles gave up during the first day. I didn´t have any better ones, so instead of trying to make it in my go go boots, I decided to see how long I can survive in them. They are getting a viking funeral, they reliably carried me through the whole thing. 

We were right under Náměstí republiky, one of the busiest tram stop in Olomouc. The quiet peace we had was stark contrast to life above us. None of those people knew that they are only few meters from such an interesting site.

We manifested rain a lot. Pair of my classmates was lucky enough to have rainy week, and since our boss counted it as day of practice, they really only dug for two non-consecutive weeks. We had a lot of cloudy days, but it was never bad enough to end earlier than 15:00, which isn´t much of improvement.
I still had to go to work during this and let me tell you, you definitely should sleep between several hours of physical work, 12 hours night shift and another bunch of physical work. 
On our last week, we decided that we don´t want rain anymore - it only made everything harder. I felt like an earth worm in wet dirt when it rained just a little bit.

Our last week was spent under our original square. The chef told us the we can decide what to do and she will just consult. Both me and Daja panicked a lot. We needed some assistance. 
I wasn´t really sure what we are looking at. There was a fire pit a lot of bones, but eras were readable only from ceramics and none of them felt distinct enough. Then, in our last hour, another supervisor came and explained that we are at the 10th century AD and this is Great Morava. It felt amazing - we were the first people to stand on this ground after 1000 years! (Funilly enoguh, first bite of 21st century this ground got was pop punk.)

It wasn´t all bad. I got buff down there, and I realised what I actually want to do once I get out - read, party and start a band. I already did all of those during last few days, but I was also excited to finally have time and energy for writing. 

This was one of the hardest thing I ever had to do for school and since I couldn´t choose a date I was unable to go to vacation both with my family and my friends few days later but well, at least I´m closer to my diploma. 

How are you guys enjoying summer? And what was the weirdest thing you had to for school?