Maun (Day 3)

Our last day in Maun for now. We will be back. Time for the actual work to start. I headed to HOORC (an extension of the University of Botswana) before we left. I was basically beggin for data, and it seems to have paid off. We shall see when I get back to the states. However, I did manage to get my plug converter stuck in the plug in the lounge. So when no one was in the lounge i would try to pry it out, yell at it, ect. But when people would enter I would quickly retake my seat and act as if nothing was wrong. Tim free the adapted in the end.

The drive to the village was easy. I slept part of the way until the road became to bumpy.

We stated training our research assistants. The girls were a bit hard to train as they would not stop giggling. My girl speaks english rather well. Truth be told she was not the one i would have chosen from the group, but I did not do the choosing. After training it was getting late and we wanted to start early the next morning so we quickly set up camp. Jessica and I made dinner and we relaxed to talk about the work ahead. Since no one in the group will read this I am going to state an opinion I would never say to the group. THE SURVEY IS OVERLY HARD AND THE TABLES ARE A MESS. It needs to be simplified a lot, but I think I am in the minority with that opinion.

Dogs are not pets I have learned. There is no love shown to them. Which bothers me tremendously. They run free, and are underfed. Which given the fact that most people don't have enoguh food does not suprise me. As one persion called them yesterday, they are lion bait. People don't treat them like pets, they shove them out of the way, throw sticks at them to get them to move, and totally ignore their needs. I think of my two puppies at home, one of who has issues because she was mistreated prior to our adopting her, and honestily it is nothing compared to this. We are so lucky, and we take it for granted. The little babies (puppies) are running around free everywhere, I may take 1 or 200 home with me. I know this it is wrong to feel this way when people are hungry and poor but I have a soft spot for animals.