{"id":353,"date":"2016-08-04T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/?p=353"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T23:56:11","slug":"derek-wemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/2016\/08\/04\/derek-wemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Wemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Wemp\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1920\/2016\/08\/Wemp-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beaching the Black Lund at Benson Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Coming into the field school, I was nervous. I wasn\u2019t sure if archaeology was right for me; I had only done one course before, and I kept imagining scenes in which I was the only one not contributing to higher level archaeological conversation. Although I\u2019m still not quite sure if archaeology (specifically) is where I\u2019m meant to be, I am amazingly glad to have participated in this course. I learned skills and knowledge in an astonishing array of different areas that I know will help me in whatever I chose to pursue. The most exciting part of the course, for me, was the many opportunities we were given to listen and interact with inspiring people; including, parks Canada employees, prolific archaeologist\u2019s and ethnographers of all sort, an accomplished ecologist, a well-experienced scholar\/engineer\/handyman, and Tseshaht members and beach keepers with a lot to learn from.\u00a0 Most importantly, I learned about possibilities. I gained faith in accomplishing my aspirations, and built knowledge and connections that will help me get there. I gained appreciation for another culture, and learned about myself in the process. I am grateful to Tseshaht for allowing us to work in their territory, helping uncover their history, and learning from their stories and words. Likewise, I\u2019m grateful for the people that helped make that happen: my teachers, parks Canada, Uvic, and my co-students. 100 100 100 thumbs up<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into the field school, I was nervous. I wasn\u2019t sure if archaeology was right for me; I had only done one course before, and I kept imagining scenes in which I was the only one not contributing to higher level archaeological conversation. Although I\u2019m still not quite sure if archaeology (specifically) is where I\u2019m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/2016\/08\/04\/derek-wemp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Derek Wemp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-site-category-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/coastalfieldarch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}