Author: Matt Christensen

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…

Today I was pretty upset because I tried to put a free PDF onto my Kindle, but it only froze.  So now I can’t access it, can’t use it to read in my free time.  It’s pretty frustrating.  After a while I got over it, I played some cards and talked to some of my…

I interviewed one Maasai person today.  I got similar data, so I think that it will be really easy to quantify my data by the end of it all.  I am content with my project and happy with the direction it is going! Again, this process for getting, doing and transcribing interviews is very slow;…

I interviewed two more people today and I think it went well.  I got similar data as last time, which I am happy about.  I am about to transcribe those two interviews now, which should take some time.  I am more than happy to do it, though!  The whole idea of collecting and analyzing data…

Transcribing interviews takes a long time!  This morning it took me nearly 3 hours to listen through each interview and to copy down word for word what was said.  I am glad I did it because it is helping me analyze much more closely and hone my questions/interview protocol.  The more interviews I do, the…