Getting Ready

There is so much to do to get ready for this trip.  James Loucky (a faculty member in the Anthropology Department) and I have been meeting in a weekly seminar with 15 students over the fall term to try to prepare for our studies in Thailand and India.  Although we don't leave until the middle of January, we have been studying about the culture and history of the places we will visit.  We have also been trying to set up some parameters for the questions we will ask about how each culture views their children, how the children see their own roles and the functions of the social structures (such as schooling) that surround children.

And, of course, we've been getting visas and immunizations.  Lots to think about.

Marie