It has been a funny sort of week.
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Inter-semester break.
Monday: Visited Maiden Castle (one of the major reasons why I chose to study archaeology) and various other Iron Age hillforts in Dorset: a very nice place, but the weather conditions could have been better. Scaling the ramparts was an incredibly entertaining ordeal; although the 50mph wind did not really help. One of my peers deemed it hilarious to roll down the various mounds; he was in fact correct in judgement because he received a black eye as a result of his stupidity ( 
). Besides engaging in tomfoolery, I did find the trip to be very informative - so much so, I have taken out a few of Mortimer Wheeler's journals on the site. However, the trip was spoiled a little bit by the fact that during the journey back, my lecturer realised that a couple of students were missing (in fact a group of six were still at the hillfort), and the coach had to go back and get them...apparently some students are still there now.
Tuesday: went to a black-tie ball. A very interesting event indeed. It started with a six-course meal complete with courses that I did not know even existed - apparently there is a course between the starter and the main meal known as an entr
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