June 1, 2011
Way more successful survey day. Fifty surveys and seven hours later, I pity the fool who does this for a living. Does anyone do this for a living? Maybe only grad students are so lucky. Around lunchtime, the teacher gave us juice and cookies. It was very sweet of him, but I felt a little guilty lecturing the kids on sweets with my mouth full of cookie. I’m really glad the last two kids had particularly precious huge brown eyes, because it took a lot of self control to patiently teach them to brush the fish’s teeth.
Back at the clinic, someone had come to check on the solar panels again and decided some parts don't work anymore (I can't even begin to be mores specific. I know nothing about solar panels). They told Regino that we have to pay to replace the parts… that are under warranty. Apparently I have mostly embraced the lack of electricity because I was more or less indifferent. Unfortunately, I only had three hours left on the iPad, so half of San Nicolas and all of Rio Grande will be on paper. I think I’m faster with paper, but it’s going to make things slower when I get home – 6 of 1, half dozen of the other. I’m just glad to be getting the survey done.
Words for the day:
Chaparritos: very short people (like the people in my community). I was assured that this is not a derogatory term…
Plancones: tall people (like a plank)
Fornido: Big boned (I didn’t get a direct translation on this, the man I was talking to described his daughter with this word and mimed muscles. He sort of suggested in a polite way that she was larger, so I decided this means big boned)
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