Student Blog: Adam Fraser II
November 7, 2009
Well it has been a long time since I thought about writing for pleasure as opposed to an assignment. My assignments have not finished but I have to the read texts before I have to write about them.
I have been thinking about going back to Israel and doing field work and being out of the classroom. My honors paper is going to focus on the debates that surround our site, Khirbet Qeiyafa, particularly the reliability of the Biblical narrative and comparing it to the excavated evidence. My major is under Interdisciplinary Studies and is titled Cultural Studies and Archaeology.
Throughout my undergraduate studies I have focused on Religion, Classics and Anthropology. These three disciplines seem to cover the range of topics that my honors paper asks for. As I have said, I have been very occupied with my studies. To break from them I have been painting a great deal. I find painting very satisfying but at the same time it can be frustrating because I do not always produce what I have in mind. Sometimes it can be more than perfect but other times (like last night) it can be more draining than relaxing. I have been thinking that after I finish up school I may head out to France and Spain to experience life and learn new ways of painting.
I want to get as far away from school as possible after I finish. I have been also thinking of going out to Australia to drove cattle or work as a ranch hand. After I came home from my first season at Qeiyafa I was out of a job and so I work at a ranch near my home in Canada. I really enjoyed that and would like to do that for a year or two but in a different country and I think Australia would be the ideal location for doing that. I don’t know if I want to be a practicing archaeologist but it is something I want to learn more about but I do think that there is more to experience in life than being stuck in a discipline, as important and it is to devote oneself to a given study there is so much to experience and I think that it is easy to miss out. I do think that archaeology does give one a unique perspective on life and perhaps existence itself without getting to deep!
Anyway, that is all I got to say now.
Bests,
Adam
Well it has been a long time since I thought about writing for pleasure as opposed to an assignment. My assignments have not finished but I have to the read texts before I have to write about them.
I have been thinking about going back to Israel and doing field work and being out of the classroom. My honors paper is going to focus on the debates that surround our site, Khirbet Qeiyafa, particularly the reliability of the Biblical narrative and comparing it to the excavated evidence. My major is under Interdisciplinary Studies and is titled Cultural Studies and Archaeology.
Throughout my undergraduate studies I have focused on Religion, Classics and Anthropology. These three disciplines seem to cover the range of topics that my honors paper asks for. As I have said, I have been very occupied with my studies. To break from them I have been painting a great deal. I find painting very satisfying but at the same time it can be frustrating because I do not always produce what I have in mind. Sometimes it can be more than perfect but other times (like last night) it can be more draining than relaxing. I have been thinking that after I finish up school I may head out to France and Spain to experience life and learn new ways of painting.
I want to get as far away from school as possible after I finish. I have been also thinking of going out to Australia to drove cattle or work as a ranch hand. After I came home from my first season at Qeiyafa I was out of a job and so I work at a ranch near my home in Canada. I really enjoyed that and would like to do that for a year or two but in a different country and I think Australia would be the ideal location for doing that. I don’t know if I want to be a practicing archaeologist but it is something I want to learn more about but I do think that there is more to experience in life than being stuck in a discipline, as important and it is to devote oneself to a given study there is so much to experience and I think that it is easy to miss out. I do think that archaeology does give one a unique perspective on life and perhaps existence itself without getting to deep!
Anyway, that is all I got to say now.
Bests,
Adam