Hey yall so sorry I haven't been posting! We have been out of wifi for a long! So here's kind of a summery after working the first week at the farm. So it has been such an amazing time working with my team and for New Horizons. The first few days my team basically spent re-working everything we prepared for about our project... This trip has already shown that no matter how much you spend preparation for something, everything can go wrong anyways. We basically had to re-do most of our survey we created due to the language barrier and also ran into a few technical problems, but we were able to problem solve.
So safe to say we had to make many changes and adaptations to our "plan of action", but after day 3 we were able to work through these challenges and figure out the most efficient system for our team. We then started with our project by interviewing some of the workers on Andrew's farm. Later in the week we started going out to the out growers for New Horizons to survey. This was really fun because we got to experience communicating with the families for the first time. We have a translator that is dedicating time to work with our team everyday and he is really patient and excited to work with us. The language they speak here in Mozambique is mainly Portuguese and then there are a few tribal languages. There are some similarities in Spanish and Portuguese, so some of my old high school Spanish is actually coming to good use!
One week complete and a few more left. I already feel like I'm learning so much, and getting so much work done. I'm excited for our first excursion this weekend and to see what all the trip has in store for me!
So safe to say we had to make many changes and adaptations to our "plan of action", but after day 3 we were able to work through these challenges and figure out the most efficient system for our team. We then started with our project by interviewing some of the workers on Andrew's farm. Later in the week we started going out to the out growers for New Horizons to survey. This was really fun because we got to experience communicating with the families for the first time. We have a translator that is dedicating time to work with our team everyday and he is really patient and excited to work with us. The language they speak here in Mozambique is mainly Portuguese and then there are a few tribal languages. There are some similarities in Spanish and Portuguese, so some of my old high school Spanish is actually coming to good use!
One week complete and a few more left. I already feel like I'm learning so much, and getting so much work done. I'm excited for our first excursion this weekend and to see what all the trip has in store for me!