Another great session at my host research site this morning, made the (very) early start worth it.
Not only was I met with gloriously happy faces as ever, but gifts!!! Holiday rock and (homemade and epically tasting) cake from the birthday girl. Made me feel very special, and rather humble really. The team I am working with are giving me so much time, support, advice and – perhaps above all – patience as I bombard them with questions, emails and paper, that the additional friendliness and kindness that they add in is just amazing actually. I shall have to practice my own baking skills to keep them going towards the end of the summer perhaps….it could be a long haul!
After quite a ‘data heavy’ week, tomorrow I have set aside some time for reading, and as part of my background work on Ethnography theory I shall be reading a paper by Iversen (2009) about the skill of “Getting Out” of a field situation. Vital I’m sure, but I have to question, if they keep providing gifts, where is my incentive to leave…?!
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