Project Kiem An has been almost entirely driven my small groups that have been, bit by bit, nibbling off chunks of work for the monstrous task Gerard as set before our class of mapping out how people make a living in Vietnam. The way our small groups operate has been largely left up to each group's individual discretion. This was a wise decision because it allows for people to maximize their own unique potential. My group has bee strange. At first, we tried to meet in person frequently and act collectively, but recently we have been doing everything individually. I don't like this change because I don't know how well we are doing. I no long have the pulse of our group. It's difficult to gauge anything, including how much work I am doing in comparison to other members. I have frequently asked the Vietnamese-speaking members of my group to let me handle all the tasks that are possible for English speakers, yet I still feel like I'm not contributing enough. I just hope the final product is high enough quality to contribute our class's goal.
Because I have not been able to do any interviews, I have been doing mainly English language grammar and spelling corrections for the translated transcript of the the interviews. My group is friendly with each other and works well together, but sometimes I feel like they resent me for not being able to speak Vietnamese. I wish I could help out more with the interviews, but there's not much more I can do but go to the interviews, take pictures, record video, smile at the interviewee, etc.
yeah, smile at the interviewee :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think they'd blame you for not being able to speak Vietnamese very much