- 50 min - Class time - "What Students Don't Learn Abroad"
- 20 min - Meet with professor to plan schedule in prep for Field Study
- 120 min - Set up blog, play with design of it, research landscape possibilities online, write first learning journal entry
- 50 min - Class: Sections
8 Jan. 2011
- 60 min - reading the handout for class
- 10 min - looking up plants in Tonga
10 Jan. 2011
- 20 min - learning journal entry #2 written and posted
- 30 min - 25 questions assignment
- 50 min - Class: Qualitative Field Research
- 30 min - searching journal articles...not too much success
- 30 min - learning journal 3
- 20 min - research on Tonga, the botanical garden, CIA world fact book
- 50 min - Class: Project Question
- 80 min - researching Tongan 2006 census for applicable information, writing part of learning journal 4, trying to find more sources on land ownership in Tonga
- 20 min - read the article "Reading and Writing Social Research"
- 50 min - Class: Reading and Writing Social Research
- 90 min - searching for sources mostly online and writing up source document analysis 1 and 2
- 30 min - learning journal 5
- 50 min - Class: source document analysis
- 100 min - searching for sources for the annotated bibliography
- 30 min - looking back through sources and writing learning journal 6
- 50 min - Class: Annotated sources
- 120 min - finding sources and reading up on them a little bit for annotated bibliography
- 30 min - Learning journal #7
- 50 min - Class: Culture Blends and Monochronic and Polychronic Time
- 20 min - Looking for Tongan authors for book- only found children's books
- 60 min - Found pertinent books in the library and put them in for my annotated bibliography
- 30 min - Learning journal 8 thinking and writing
- 50 min - Class: Annotated sources
- 30 min - reading other blog posts and writing a comment, looking for a book to read
- 60 min - cultural event that I wrote a learning journal on- Chinese New Year at BYU
- 50 min - Class: Literature review and source document analysis
- 50 min - Class: Interviewing
- 60 min - Cultural Inquiry group where I learned about ethnocentrism by playing the rafa rafa game
- 80 min - Finding an article (not sure if the one I found is good enough or not...) on Tongan families and writing my learning journal 10
- 30 min - Contacting a person to interview, waiting for my interviewee to come, and then finding out I'd have to reschedule for another time
- 100 min - Working on getting a new person to interview for a few minutes, and then most of the time spent interviewing them (it ended up being two people)
- 60 min - Writing up expanded notes of my first methods interview to take to class
- 50 min - Class: culture stuff with section
- 60 min - Learning journal 11 and reviewing methods practice 1
- 30 min - Readings for class
- 20 min - Looking for a book to read...I can't find any of the ones in the library in the packet
- 50 min - Class: Field Notes and Observation
- 60 min - Learning journal 12 and reading a few journal articles on my topic
- 60 min - Participant Observation activity - Tongan Ward activity
- 50 min - Class: Class, Race, Ethnicity
- 140 min - Methods assignment - observation and writeup
- 50 min - Class: Methods
- 30 min - Learning Journal 13
- 45 min - IRB training
- 20 min - Brainstorming for project proposal and reviewing the guidelines
- 50 min - Class: Ethics
- 40 min - Learning Journal 14
- 60 min - Looking through sources and trying to gather information for proposal
- 90 min - Working on the draft of the Project Proposal
- 60 min - Draft for Project Proposal
- 50 min - Class: IRB protocol stuf
- 120 min - Cultural Event - Living Legends
- 20 min - Learning Journal 15
- 50 min - Class: Entering the Community
- 30 min - Learning Journal 16
- 40 min - Ophelia Syndrome reading
- 20 min - Researching out flight information and making a list of what needs to get done
- 20 min - Self Evaluation
- 30 min - Updating time log
- 50 min - Class: Mid semester check
- 30 min - Learning Journal 17
- 20 min - IRB protocol reading
- 50 min - Mixed Section: IRB Mock Review
- 90 min - IRB draft and research for background/significance section
- 60 min - Learning Journal 18, and reading some of the book I found
- 60 min - Going through the assigned readings, and then creating Learning Journal 19 off of what I read in "Helping, Fixing, Serving"
- 120 min - Writing up the IRB proposal, a little more research to find sources for the background/significance section
- 60 min - Wrapping up stuff with the IRB rough draft
- 45 min - Learning Journal 20 (turns out I got ahead somehow...) and updating the time log for this week
- 50 min -Class: Discussions with field study alumni
- 120 min - Searching through and buying plane tickets
- 30 min - Read article by Vai Sikahema about Tongan culture
- 150 min - 2nd draft of the IRB protocol
- 50 min - Class: Signs and symbols
- 20 min - Readings
- 50 min - Class: Contemporary culture
- 50 min - Class: IRZB protocol discussions
- 60 min - Review and annotate peer protocols
- 50 min - Class: IRB protocols
- 60 min - Review peer protocols, some personal research found a great book
- 45 min - Meet with primary mentor to discuss project proposal and course contract
- 30 min - Course contract with development professor
- 180 min - Finish IRB protocol and turned in!
- 60 min - Thinking about and writing learning journal
- 45 min - Learning journal 21 - travel is stressful
- 60 min - Spoke with Dr. Allen about field study
- 30 min - Spoke with field study alumni in my major and brainstormed about post field applicaitons
- 45 min - Learning journal 22 written in the Chicago airport...good reflections
- 50 min - Class: cross-cultural communication
- 80 min - Worked on proposal
- 30 min - Learning journal 23
- 45 min - Eating at a Polynesian restaurant with class
- 140 min - Luau in the WILK, cultural event where I made observations on the audience and performances
- 50 min - Class: Proposal problems and how to fix them
- 50 min - Class: Being flexible and having other plans
- 45 min - Learning journal 24
- 60 min - Looking up information to bulk up significance section of proposal
- 50 min - Class: Tonga chat
- 60 min - Umu preparation, cultural event
- 50 min - Class: Talk about proposals and how bad they were...time to fix them
- 20 min - Create list/outline of background/significance sections
- 90 min - Umu feast of Tongan food
- 300 min - Project proposal, lock myself in the library and write
- 150 min - Project proposal finish up the writing
- 50 min - Class: culture shock
- 30 min - Learning journal about culture shock
- 260 min - Presentation, creating powerpoint and figuring out what to say
- 50 min - Class: presentation
- 30 min - Learning journal
- 30 min - Financial aid application and taking care of course work for course contracts
- 20 min - Talk with primary mentor about expectations
- 50 min - Class: presentations
- 40 min - Learning journal
- 60 min - Finishing and failing to print the proposal right
- 50 min - Class: Safety and security
- 60 min - Memorizing how to introduce myself in Tongan
- 40 min - Updating time log from notes in my planner
- 30 min - Last learning journal!
- 50 min - Class: Review for final
- 40 min - Meeting with primary mentor about books to take with me and keeping in contact. We reviewed my project and he gave some final bits of advice.
- 240 min - Review for final (going through readings, memorizing lists, looking through notes, etc)
- 135 min - The final
TOTAL: 7235 minutes
