[Monday, June 22nd, 2009]
We interviewed CLM Graduate at a local market day, the CLM graduate selected small commerce as one of her two enterprises.




[Wednesday, June 24th, 2009]
Wealth Ranking Village Meeting

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If I occupy this room during the afternoon, as I do today in my stomach rumblings and fatigue, I fling back the mosquito net surrounding my bed—it obscures the small relief from the overhead fan, and mosquitoes have mostly retired til dark. I scratch violently at the bites peppering the backs of my thighs. Last night I mistakenly trapped one insect in my cocoon, and it feasted on me throughout the night. This is my penance for being relatively unsweet-blooded, compared with my friends, and I thi… Continue

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The rhetorical dangers of culture clash (comments from local women made through a translator)

“Is she yours?”
--woman to Sahil, about Katherine

“Are you Muslim or Hindu?”
--(I still don’t know how to answer this question)

“Chicken?”
--Manzhu, our translator, at every single meal, still disbelieving that we actually do not want meat

“But if you get tired from this walk you won’t be able to finish the rest of the day!”
--Manzhu, regarding a 1 km stroll, for which we insisted a rickshaw was unn… Continue