Talk about a long day, I don't know how anthropologist do it - honestly...spending the day interviewing and talking to people about things...and researching, like collecting data is frickin TOUGH! i am lucky that i am working with an organization that is well established, has excellent record keeping and is willing to help me with everything. Let me tell you - this was day one of my interviews and it NEARLY kicked my ass. but that is alright, an ass-whooping here and there is necessary, needless to say, i am tired. the good thing is that i don't need to translate too much and i am getting into the habit of each night after all my work, writing down everything - thoughts from the day, ways to make my research method better, things that i should have done differently, things that i will do differently next time, better ways of asking questions, not thinking that surveys are self-explanatory and there is a ALOT of handholding that goes along with it, knowing that if you are conducting a survey in another language that you have to be fully prepared to talk about it or at least have the people you are going around with well verse is what you are ACTUALLY trying to accomplish - realizing that people don't understand the concept of Social Economics...even more so when people live in joint families, the money all goes into one pot, so there is no break out of income and an understanding of how income should be broke out - yeah, this is fun - i mean it is a learning experience and an eye opening one, but also SUPER exhaustive and crazy time consuming...
but i will say one thing - the group that is helping me out here JSS it frickin AWESOME! they have pulled together this week to help me collect my data and hopefully achieve the goal of getting 100 interviewee's...now that is impressive - the pull and power they have in order to do this is extremelly surprising to me and is awe inspiring. actually a government run organization that has its SHIT together. i can't believe the level of detail that they have in record keeping and everything! this is absolutely amazing - without them, not even one interview would be possible...and with them, i might actually achieve my goal of 100...which is even more amazing, take for instance tonight, two staff members and a driver were with me for two hours just to chase down 9 people! it was frickin awesome - we were driving and the trainer would see someone on the side of the street and would tell the driver to stop, we would jump out and then interview the person RIGHT there, it was awesome - a couple times i almost got hit, but hell, it was fun! i mean these people are AMAZING! i can't even begin to tell you - they are helping me to just help me, wow - and the most i can give them back is recognition in my paper...but they will be recognized and i will be sure to take a staff photo for my files - amazing...absolutely amazing...
i love doing this work - it is awesome - this is what i enjoy, i can't wait to be paid for it! but until then i am one tired interviewer....
till later.....
posted by ravi @ 6:55 AM
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