Today felt like it was going to be bad even before I got out of bed. For one, I woke up with a scratchy feeling in my neck. To make it worse its Hot HOT HOT and being sick, always thirsty and hot is not a good combination. I need to get rid of this cold ASAP. My solution: Garlic. Garlic is the best antibacterial anti-cold fighter in the world, and its good for you too. After arriving on campus at around 9:30AM for a 10Am meeting we walked to the Dean of Nursing's office. After waiting for a few minutes we were informed that she was not on campus yet we were then directed to the nursing labs where we were told we would have a meeting and would be introduced to the UB students that would be accompanying us with the house to house survey. 15 minutes passed then 30 then 45 after 1hour and 30 minutes no one had showed up to let us know that there was not going to be a meeting.
I am starting to feel like we are getting the run around especially since it seems like this is turning into a turf war between those involved. I guess this is "research". Everything takes so long, everyone wants to be involved but we are not getting any answers. I wonder if it is because we are students without a professor? We are like lost sheep without a shepherd that can guide us along the way.
After waiting patiently for over an Hour and a half we walked back to the Deans office and she doesn't have any news for us, especially in regards to the UB students :(. This now puts us back because we were planning on doing the pilot test of our survey that we created in Belize City and from everyone we have talked to and according to Lonely planet's book on Belize, it is very unsafe for foreigners to travel within Belize city. We have also heard of horror stories of foreigners being surrounded, robbed, beaten, or worse killed. My life is worth a lot more than putting myself in danger for research. I think it is best to push down the pilot study to the following week so that we can at least have the accompaniment of Belizean natives especially if we are going to be in Belize city. And since we are not piloting on Thursday, I cannot teach the Epi-info to the UB students because we wont have something concrete to work with and we don't know who is still on board to participate with the program.
This is research, it is uncertain and can take many turns. I think Debby, Elizabeth and Caitlin are starting to get quite frustrated with the process but I'm glad that I prepared myself mentally for the whole situation because things never work out how you want them to in a foreign country. You just have to go with the flow and push when you can to get things done without being a pest. I guess the positive outcome of all this is that i know can choose whether I want to take my exam on Thursday or Friday. Oh yea, I'm going to be doing option 1-100 questions. Bring it on!!!
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