Month: October 2012

Today is Halloween!  We celebrated by dressing up, having caramel apples and drinking alcohol (and playing lots of cards).  We also had some caramel apples, which Barbara Wye helped make.  They were delicious and I think everyone in camp liked them!  I was a Spartan Warrior for Halloween; Leonidas aka Gerard Butler with a drawn…

After not really doing much besides reading for the past couple of days I felt the need to go back out there to do interviews.  So this morning I talked to Samwell about going out to recruit more.  At 9:00AM we set off to visit more Bomas across the road from Zion and deeper into…

Today I spent a lot of time writing down transcriptions of my last 3 interviews.  It took a long time, but it’s always satisfying to complete.

Today I did another 3 interviews, putting my current total up to 13!  Tomorrow marks the halfway point of our data collection, I think.  I also think that my project is sitting pretty, I feel good and confident that the information I have received is quality.  Today for one of my interviews I travelled once…

I am really surprised that I haven’t gotten Malaria yet.  Like today I feel great and I know that I’ve probably been bit by countless mosquitoes, so I must just be lucky or something.  Nobody has gotten it in the field so far, which is great. So pretty soon I think that I will be…

This morning I went out with a few people to shadow their interviews.  It went well, but I decided to leave and walk back to camp early.  We were in town so I bought a stack of packaged, crème-filled cookies from the mini-supermarket for 1000/=.  My walk back was totally chill, eating the whole bag…