Monday Monday
It seems to be tricky to schedule activities for Mondays, which them ideal for trying to catch up on computer-based work for uni and blogging etc. We get very little spare time at the moment - as soon as we get up and ready we go for breakfast, and after breakfast we either head to the school or out to the field. If we go to the school, we can sometimes snatch the odd half-hour for computer work, but that doesn't get us very far as the internet here is so slow. If we go out to the field, we can get back anytime from 4pm to 7pm, leaving us time to get washed and changed and have dinner before bed. If there is extra time, we still have to fit in hand laundering our clothes, and we spend a reasonable amount of time talking with Manil and Ronny - all part of relationship building, respect, and learning as much as possible. I also assist Rajan with some physiotherapy exercises I have devised for him. So yes, Mondays are very useful days!
This Monday, Manil and Ronny had to travel to Bangalore for a few days to take care of some business there, so things felt a little different around the SEDS farm with the boss away! I focussed on my biogas project, and I began to write up some of the background as well as finalising my first version of the questionnaire. Later in the day Manni arrived to stay for the night, so I took the opportunity to pilot my explanation of the questionnaire, and to see what her response to it was so that I could check for cultural appropriateness. Manni made a few comments which made me realise that while I take it for granted that surveys are pretty much self-explanatory if you write in the instructions, that is not necessarily the case for people who don't often come into contact with questionnaires. I therefore adjusted the formatting a bit to accommodate a more consistent question-and-answer method. This is not normally ideal for research questionnaires as you want to double-check people's consistency in answering, but for these purposes it seemed necessary in order to make the questionnaire accessible to the participant population.
This Monday, Manil and Ronny had to travel to Bangalore for a few days to take care of some business there, so things felt a little different around the SEDS farm with the boss away! I focussed on my biogas project, and I began to write up some of the background as well as finalising my first version of the questionnaire. Later in the day Manni arrived to stay for the night, so I took the opportunity to pilot my explanation of the questionnaire, and to see what her response to it was so that I could check for cultural appropriateness. Manni made a few comments which made me realise that while I take it for granted that surveys are pretty much self-explanatory if you write in the instructions, that is not necessarily the case for people who don't often come into contact with questionnaires. I therefore adjusted the formatting a bit to accommodate a more consistent question-and-answer method. This is not normally ideal for research questionnaires as you want to double-check people's consistency in answering, but for these purposes it seemed necessary in order to make the questionnaire accessible to the participant population.
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