Reflections on my pilot study.

I have completed a few questionnaires for my pilot study, for the pre-test. It's exciting to actually be doing field work-- I feel like it's been going so slowly to get my project running off the ground.

With some changes I made with the students from VER-SUS (who completed my first pre-test), I think my questionnaire is almost ready. My supervisor will take a look at it this weekend, and hopefully next week I can start.

My research team has mentioned to me a few times that there may be some cultural nuances I will miss when I go out and do my research. For this reason, I will be supervised sometimes. It's interesting to me that this is even a possibility, because something like this would never happen in the United States-- people tend to give research grantees (students or professors) much more independence, and only help when asked. Here, I've been getting a lot of assistance, which is highly unusual and interesting to get accustomed to.