Making friends and influencing people!

So today we took that gargantuan leap of faith and actually talked to Johhny Foreigner, the Dutch. They all speak pretty good English, and all seem like great fun. Only talked to about 4 of them, and they are a 20 something group, but that´s progress. I also found one of their field books lost in the field, and handed it to their lecturer, who by the way is a proper geologist. Big beard, dodgy jumper, the works. He was impressed that there was just the two of us out here on a project all by ourself. Apparantly he´s been coming here for 20 years or so with his uni, so if we need help, he´s the man!

Managed a pass on second year! Well, better than a pass, but yeah. Third year is now officially starting, with this being a third year project. I was contemplating, if failing everything, just either coming home or goin touring around Spain for a few weeks. Either one was a good plan, and I actually got a bit excited about going touring. Damn all that revision paying off!

The works coming along nicely, we might be able to move off the first 8Km soon. It´s taking longer in some places due to the fact that there´s a lot of faulting and it´s a rather hard area to do, but I can´t complaing. We started on the easy stuff, and blitzed it, so from now on it´s heads down.

In other news, Ben´s boots have nearly had it, so it could be an emergency run to Teruel tomorrow to get new ones for him! I might stay in the field, daring I know, so I don´t loose too much time. Although it makes me worry for my DMs, they took a battering in Scotland and seem on their last legs out here! Oh noes!