Thursday, June 21, 2012

Another Day in the Office


This morning Sarah and I finally finished transcribing our five hours of tapes. It is a great feeling to have them done. Once finished with that, Tino had asked me to write a reflection on the focus group discussions for the use of our sponsors and his own records. My overall review and feelings about the discussions were positive with only a few suggestions for next time. After all, I would not be using the focus group discussions for my own project if I did not think they did a good job of capturing the necessary information. The rest of the morning was spent doing random tasks and helping Sarah put together our timeline from the activity we did with the farmers on day two. I was impressed with how professional we were able to make everything look. Hopefully Tino will be pleased.

We went to lunch at Naivis again today. To my disappointment the store was not serving spaghetti and I settled for potato wedges. They were decent, but not nearly as good as the spaghetti I had a few days back. Craving fruit snacks, I asked Sarah if Kenyan grocery stores carried such a thing. She said they should and we went on a hunt to find them but came up empty handed. I settled for a piece of chocolate cake instead, however, the taste did not even compare to any delicious cake in America.

Our afternoon was spent trying to start my GIS training. For some reason the sample data did not download so I had to uninstall everything and try reinstalling the software. Computers can cause such time consuming problems sometimes, but I guess I also have to remember how much time they are capable of saving. I just hope everything works tomorrow so Sarah and I can actually get started.

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