“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
We are two hard working women indeed!
Last week were as I’ve already written ups and downs, but when we
reached the weekend, we had managed to conduct seven interviews in five days.
And remember, we cannot just walk up to any random dude on the street – these
are all representatives of an organisation or institution, which requires a bit
more formality.
Our plan has been to do the last interviews this week, adding up to
12-15 in total. As the transcription is a VERY time-consuming process (I
listen, translate to English and then Tess types it) we are gonna try to hire
some linguistic students at the local university to help us with that. It
shouldn’t be too expensive considering how much time we would actually save.
Next week we intend to finish the work in CBBA, to be able to leave next
weekend.
We are getting a bit tired of this city… the climate is lovely indeed,
but it is very polluted (one of the most contaminated cities in South America
according to a professor we interviewed) and noisy. The mountain range is
beautiful, but too far away! So, from here we are heading to Rurrenabaque,
which is in the Amazonas region where Tess is gonna do a consultant job for
U&We and then we are hoping to do some Eco-tourism in Parque Madidi!
Plaza during demonstrations
View from our rooftop room
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