Back to the trees, sorry, i mean back to the field...

ia ora na everyone, i'm back after months of silence. Actually, i thought the blog was buried alive, i completely forgot about it..originally it was created to go through the comps without getting crazy..well, i passed my comps in last march/april 2007, got crazy and now, i'm back to normal for another round of craziness : fieldwork. I'm in Tahiti and Moorea since june for my research fieldwork and it is not fun every day. Before i start complaining, let's see what happened this past half year: -like i said, i passed my comps, i'm ABD now and doing my fieldwork in the Society Islands, ok, we got that part.... -my little angel (it's a joke, of course...) Roonui turned 2 in august... -we created our association (NGO French style sort of thing...) "Te 'Ihipapa no ta'ato'a" in january (Archaeology for everyone). "we" means my friend Tamara Maric and myself, miss Maric being an archaeologist and PhD candidate as well. I'll give more details later, but roughly, one day we decided that archaeology is not only for archaeologists, researchers, specialists and so forth who represent a ridiculous percentage of humankind versus the people who represent a majority of the population....in other words, archaeology belongs to all of us and first of all, for those whose lands and past we are scrutinizing....what's the point of filling databases with thousands of data when the kids from around the village have no clue where their tupuna are coming from ? what's the point of hearing yourself blablablaing in front of a very small audience when your folks have no idea of what the hell you're doing with your trowel and when you forget to share your "knowledge" with EVERYBODY who is concerned ? anyway, i'll explain another day what's up with our association. it was jut about reconnecting with the world and say that the Pacific archaeology blog is back in service..... mauru'uru, hinanui