Shanna Goes To...: Have I Only Been Here For 1 Week?

Day 7
6:30 Breakfast
7:00 Trip to Olorgesailie
1:30 Lunch
4:45 Archaeology Class
6:30 Dinner

The Toilet

   It's amazing how adaptable people are. I had only been here for a week but already was settling into camp routine easily. "Because the air is normally so dusty & dry, our snot is very dirty. The floor of our tent is also really dirty from this dry dirt. Rachel & I were using our socks to sweep it up. These are socks I'm going to wear again, I wore them yesterday & today - it's all about laundry conservation!" I also recorded this gem in my journal, "I really am afraid of squatting over the toilet and a snake biting me - I don't think I've ever appreciated a porcelain toilet more!"
   The archaeology site Olorgesailie was about an hour drive away from our camp site. It's already become second nature to lean inwards in the truck to avoid being scratched by the acacia tree thorny branches whipping in.
   Once at the site, the archaeology professor Mzalendo gave a short lecture about the site. We went to the "museum" which was a small building with information. We went walking through the site looking at the hand axes made by homo erectus. "The coolest site was the elephant humerus from 992,000 years ago. The elephant species elephas recki became extinct around 600,000 years ago and some of the last bones known of this species are found at Olorgesailie." 10 years ago today I came to realize that the luxuries we enjoy in the Western world come in many forms, including flushing toilets!