This Week

The expanded census has consisted of two main parts: (1) going to the other neighborhoods that consist primarily of (but not all) Dominicans and (2) going back over what we did last week and collecting more information. The latter part is information we "missed" last week. "Missed" meaning things we neglected to collect according to our director's perspective, and "missed" meaning things she told us not to collect before we started, but this week she says she wanted us to to collect, from our perspective. In either case, we've completed both parts now as of Thursday evening. This really ought to do it for the data collection portion of the project. Tomorrow I think we may be tabulating some of the data. If the census is expanded again or anything else needs to be corrected it's going to have to wait because the four of us are planning on taking off for Santo Domingo (the capital) next week. Now, mind you, this isn't us being insolent, we we're told in advance we would have this week off. It'll be nice to have an extended period of R&R. I'm sure I'll check in again before I go. Until then.