t minus 1120 hours!! wahoooo

what up homeslices,
This is my FIRST post and I'm so excited! Sorry for not posting sooner, Muyambi =(...anywhooo...I just finished typing the minutes from the May 2, 2009 meeting (check out the below post from Kevin for the fun details!). So I got assigned minutes for my task in Uganda. Clearly I'm really good at that judging by the fact that it's taken me one month and 11 days to send out the minutes. At one point I even thought I lost them (eeek!!) but then realized they were in the folder I titled, "Important Things I Shouldn't Lose" (along with Kevin's receipt for the band equipment that I never gave to Muyambi...).

Enough of my rambling...This post to update about stuff that has happened since school ended. Let's see, I started reading Living With Bad Surroundings, which I'm really happy that we're reading since it gives a good (but intense) snapshot at the region that we're going to. I really need to post on BB...hmmm...I'll get around to that soon!

I'm (supposed to be) working with Abhay on the survey that we're going to send out. He hasn't sent me a draft (Abhay!!) so I'm about to get a little testy...I hope you're reading this but I'm guessing you're not haha. After he sends me a draft then I'll add in my $0.02 and then we'll send it to Professor Amanda Wooden, prof of environmental studies. She does extensive research with surveys and should be really helpful. We just want to get them out to her soon because she's currently in Kyrgyzstan and it'll take a while to get her feedback and THEN we gotta edit it and THEN we'll send it out, with enough time for people to fill them out before we arrive. so basically we're on a tight schedule. It's really exciting to actually be doing something now. Not that our work over the past year hasn't been "real" but it's kind of been abstract in my mind. Ya know, the money that we've raised, the times we tell people about the project, the timeline/budget for proposals, all of it's this abstract idea in my head. yeah, we're going to Uganda and lending bikes, but I don't think I've worked on something with that's as concrete as this survey. The answers to the survey will help us improve the project and make it better. pretty sweet but also some pressure.

Anywhoooo...T minus 1120 hours until some of us go to Uganda. some people are leaving earlier but it's roughly 1120 hours until me, Janice, Muyambi, Kevin and Abhay head out. wahoooo!!

I hope you all appreciate this super long post.
peace out kids,
molly