Wolf Girl

I just had to add another little silly blog. You see it seems that a pack of wild dogs have accepted me into their group. The leader of the pack...REX is a beautiful black dingo-like dog who roams the Gebble, particularly the area where the magazine is. I think Az has some photos on his myspace blog. Anyway, the other day I had to be up on site and as I and another team member Natalie where walking up, Rex and his pack barked and ran around us the whole way. You see there was another pack not to far from us. These dogs are not at all friendly and they scare the hell out of me. So.... Rex was protecting us...these weird humans...why?! It was so incredible.... now i'm in love with Rex...what an amazing dog! Luckily I think the police guard at the magazine is looking after him because Rex goes right up to him and usually you can't get very close at all. They feed off the rubbish that everyone just throws out onto the street and the children toruture their puppies to death...i really don't know how they survive! But hey.... i just wanted to tell you all that i am now running with wild egyptian dogs... hee hee.

Life on the GEBBLE

Hi everyone. Sorry I have not updated for a while. The work i'm doing takes up most of my time and I don't get too many opportunities to come and email... well i do but i have to drink beer when i get back from being on site, and then i'm exhausted, and then it is dinner, and finally i crash out watching awful egyptian music videos which are basically soft porn. They are so incredible tacky and ridiculous the girls in the clips make Paris look like a Nun! There is one in particular who jumps up on the hood of a car (pretty much just a scarf covering her), and then does this move where she looks like she is having an epileptic fit. ..... perhaps Tash could shed some light on this? Being a pole dancer and all... hee hee!

So Georgiana jones has begun her adventures on the gebble of Cairo. Last week I went down into a tomb for the first time. I have to admit I was rather hesitant...but once I was down that ladder and aware of the fact that I was only the fourth person to be seeing inside this tomb for over 3000 years, all negative thoughts quickly vanished and the laura croft took over. Being the first female photographer that they have had, the Gufties (the workers who for generations have been excurvating sites such as Helwan, were hanging over the edge of the tomb peering in to see if I was really going down there. Ever since that day, they now all smile at me and say hello. Before I was lucky to get some eye contact. One of them look likes like the Messiah.

That is all for today, have had trouble loading photos... so i will give you Az's website to view some pictures of me taking pictures of a skeleton... www.myspace/indianaz.com

Take care all... give me a comment or two. Thanks Kai...promise to get the photos working soon.

love Georgie xxxx
ps my walkie talkie nickname is Mutley!

Cairo News

Hello to you all from sunny Cairo! Yes it seems I won't be needing my thermals for a few weeks as the weather is really warm and lovely. Sometimes you can't see the sun for the haze of pollution, but you can still feel its presence.

Well, i survived the plane trip, despite being trapped in the middle up the very back, two stopovers and an engine malfuncion in Dubai. Yes....my adventures almost ended before they began! No anxiety attacks though! Probably thanks to the beer I drank so it seems I am destined for a beer belly! I don't remember Laura Croft having one though!

I don't know even where to begin to describe Cairo. I haven't had a chance to explore it properly yet because I've been working, but it is a very intense place. Just think of the entire population of Australia in a city the size of Sydney, and then add no order or sense of logic and you can perhaps begin to understand. I am quite perturbed by some of the issues here, like rubbish disposal and hygiene, something that is just part of our way of thinking, yet here it is just not understood or cared about. For example to get to this internet cafe I had to walk through puddles of piss and dodge piles of waste...and this area is very modern and full of ex-pat's. Oh... and you should see the cars. They don't have any road rules, traffic lights... it is like riding the dodgem cars. Last night we went out for dinner and our taxi got a flat tyre (not unusal here) and then the next one we jumped in had a stuffed gear box! They don't take care of anything and just drive them without checking the oil or putting water in the radiators so they break down all the time. Did I mention the stench of petrol that overwhelmes you as you are travelling along???.. by the time you reach your destination you are as high as a kite. I'll probably have to go into rehab to kick the habit when I get back.

The work itself is really full on. Long days running around the dig site and then trying to get through the ever mounting pile of object photography to do. The head of the dig, Dr Khoeler is an excellent boss though. Very easy to approach and no question is deemed too stupid, so I feel like I'm not doing this blindly. The rest of the team are really lovely, very much a 'archaelogist in club mentality' that I am yet to break through (half the time I have no idea what they are talking about), but I am a new addition so I expect to be a little on the outter until I get to know everyone a little better. It is just a hard thing to do when we are all exhausted by the end of the day!!!

Anyway, I must go now...love to you all, I miss you guys!!!!
Love, George