How does anyone ever stay bored for more than a minute or two?

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How does anyone ever stay bored?

None of these exotic volunteer opportunities are ringing my chimes at the moment, but they are a taste of the variety of things one can do..........

I just finished my Hadrian's Wall class yesterday.  It was thoughtfully constructed and well taught.  They made excellent use of aerial video.  So cool, to see the instructor walking through one of the ruined Roman structures -- from ground level AND from the air......  And to have the bird's-eye view moving over the landscape.... 

I loved that so much of the class was taught where the structures (and smaller items, like jewelry) were right there and touchable.  I was a history of art minor.  I have seen A LOT of slides of art and architecture.  How much cooler when so much of the class is presented as video shot in the presence of the objects of study............  !!!

Anyway -- to get back to my main thought for this post -- there are volunteer opportunities all along Hadrian's Wall.  They did warn us that volunteering there is very popular and needs to be booked well in advance.

So much to do, so little time................

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the Earth keeps memory......

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I've just begun a class on Hadrian's Wall.  So cool!  It's being taught from Newcastle, which is right on the Wall.  The instructor has been "filmed" talking to us, standing right by the Wall.


 Milecastle 39.  By Adam Cuerden (Photograph by uploader) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


Last year I took Roman Architecture, which was an interesting class, but taught from the U.S. -- all slides, no "talking while standing right next to the object of interest."  How cool to take a class taught from the location in question! 



I've just watched a lecture about aerial photography and the way it's used in archaeology.  I'd heard about that when I took Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets a couple of years ago, and now I'm getting another look.

Here's what one of my classmates has to say:

"How astonishing that the earth keeps memory of everything done to it. And we can retrieve the knowledge of it so much later."

Indeed!



Not to mention we can learn about it from the comfort and privacy of our own homes (while imagining a visit to the north of England..........!). 

Wow.  What an excellent time to be alive!

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