Journal 10-14-2010
Today John and I drove into one of the nearby villages to attempt to take samples from rural village populations for my project. Whenever we drive by people tend to wave and stare. We drove through the village and stopped at a temple then walked back down the road to the point where some women had waved at us. The women were drying peanuts on the road outside their houses. The offered us some peanuts, which were really good. We then stood there talking with facial expressions and gestures for about 10 minutes. The women only spoke Tamil so it was pretty difficult to communicate. Eventually a crowd assembled. By this time John and I were sitting on the ground, attempting to demonstrate the monofilament test. The women in the crowd went to get a 21 year old woman named Surya from further down the road. Surya spoke some English and was able to help us tell the other women what we were trying to do. We demonstrated the test to the group with Surya as the first participant. Eventually Surya’s husband Muther walked up and with Surya’s help we convinced him to try the test too. After I finished testing Muther everyone else had left. Unfortunately we only were able to collect data from two people today.
After we started heading back we decided to walk up to a really cool temple on the top of a large hill, the same hill that is behind the Karigiri guesthouse. There was nobody up there so John and I were able to explore it quite thoroughly. It was beautiful John has the pictures on his camera.
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