Introductions and Tidbits

My name is Raychel, yes with a 'y', and I am from Victoria and I am a 4th year Anthropology major. I began my post-secondary education rather young, at the tender age of 14. Now, before you begin thinking I am a genius or something I must tell you that I lived in China (for 5 years) with my family and that I was still taking High School courses too. 
   I decided that it was not what I wanted to do and so took many years to finally decide to start over and forge forth with my education. I started out at Camosun College with the intention on doing either an Art History major or Biology major, but was introduced to Anthropology through one of the courses I took there and knew I had come home. I knew pretty much from the start that I wanted to focus on forensic and paleo-anthropology with an emphasis on DNA studies. 
    I have been taking many biological anthropology courses with a few cultural anthropology and languages courses thrown in (anyone else speak some Ukrainian!). I plan on continuing my education and hope to one day gain a PhD, and have begun the process of figuring out where I want to continue my education.
   I decided to take Anthropology 397: Archaeology of Death, as I have only had courses that are structured around more recent burials, and usually were judicial cases but would like to learn more about the customs and practices throughout human history and thought that this course offered answers to the many burning questions I have, such as how certain customs began; for instance burying children in jars, or erecting burial platforms. I look forward to learning everything that is to be covered in class!