July 10; A discovery!!

As you know, the reason I went to Israel was to work at an archaeological excavation site, so I will start there. The routine goes something like this:
Wake up at 4:00
Be ready to go and walk to the bus around 4:30 in the morning
Board a large bus with my team and Polish and Israeli archaeology teams
Drive up a twisty mountain road and leave the bus at the drop off spot for the site
Walk about a half mile uphill to the site
Get to Work!
Take water breaks every 25 minutes
Breakfast with the other teams at 8:00
Work till noon, and get on the bus to go back to the Kibbutz
Eat lunch, swim, shower, etc.

What does "get to work" entail? Basically we dig down into the ground and remove large quantities of dirt and rocks (some of which take 4 people to move!), while at the same time paying attention to formations such as walls, and picking up pottery sherds. Well, today as my group from section B4 (The whole site is divided into a grid; Letter is east west and number is north south) was digging Erin uncovered a rock and saw a hole beneath it. It was a cistern: a storage chamber for water underground. This was a remarkable discovery. We have now found that there are 3 cisterns in and around the church, whick is actually very odd. Most churches would have had one. Since our group is working in a recently discovered room to the side of the church, this discovery may be able to help us figure out what the room was used for. It was a good day for square B4!