Matt Christensen

It’s been raining quite a bit lately here since Thursday, really heavy, intense long lasting rains.  Last night it was relentless and I woke up a couple of times in the tent because of the noise.  I am pretty relieved that no water got into Bob, Ryan and my tent.  It’s surprising because our zipper…

So today Anna Dinwoodie helped me restart my Kindle and it worked!  I am really fricken excited that it wasn’t completely broken!  I honestly thought that it was never going to be usable again! Today was mostly uneventful except for the doctoring of my Kindle.  Then naturally I read!  It was great.  And during the…

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…