Hello Friends,
As you can tell from the title I got injured. I rolled my ankle doing tomb surveying and I am really mad because my ankle is swollen and hard for me to walk. Therefore, Dr. Baker pulled me from working the sites for a day or two to recover and I am really upset. Kelly and I were going to explore some interesting tombs tomorrow and now I have to work on cleaning bones instead.
Today was not my day. To begin with Kelly and I found no tombs in our sector which was very frustrating. Then my allergies acted up and I was sneezing all day- ugh! Also, as I began hiking the trail I crashed into a root and slammed up onto a rock- ouch! However, the real tragedy was that we got a new sector and as we began surveying the site I sprained my ankle. 😦
As Kelly and I began to walk the area we suddenly encountered wild boars who started chasing us through the brush! As we were running for our lives I jumped out of the boar’s way when I fell in the mud and tripped, spraining my ankle. Just kidding! I thought that would be a better story than me just tripping and spraining my ankle. It took me an hour and 15 minutes to limp back to the bus.
Shout out to my wonderful new friends who brought me dinner since I could not go out to eat!! Thank you!! They picked up a pizza and we all gathered together in my room talking and relaxing with my leg up to reduce the swelling. A friend of mine let me borrow her leg brace and with no ice in Italy it has been a challenge. I’m off to bed now to rest and hopefully the swelling will go down by the morning so I can go back to work.
Sweet dreams,
Noelle
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