Survey out of the field

The Marketing Survey that I'm working on left the field this week. This is sweet news because it means that our team of enumerators have completed interviews in all of the 155 markets that needed visiting. And that the raw data is safely tucked away on this VERY laptop and several other top secret places.
Down side is that I won't be able to get my Stata on for a little while yet though. We'll only be cleaning the data once the other small freight train of work passes over.

Off to Mount Bintumani

This weekend I'm heading off to Mount Bintumani. It's in the Koinadugu district, in the northern part of the country. Apparently it's the highest mountain in West Africa, at 1,948 metres. There's loads of jungle around there, so I'm hoping to see some chimps... this place is far away from everywhere, I'm looking forward to the journey. I'll be back on Tuesday.

So I'll be out of town this Sunday, but will be posting up the conquests of the weekend soon after.

"Salone Sundays" Page

I've just got the Salone Sundays page started (check out the list of pages on the right). I'm going to try keep some up to date ramblings on that page. Have a look. Today's entry was about the weekend's exploits on Tokeh beach, which includes partying it up with some "East Side" locals and moving as little as possible while floating in the warm and paradisical side of the Atlantic.

I'm going to try get some more useful information up on here soon, like what I'm actually doing here in Sierra Leone, but we'll see how long that takes...

Getting going on the internets

I've been in Sierra Leone for almost 3 months now, promising to send out emails and updates... so I decided to get a blog going instead. This country has been quite inspiring so far, so I'm looking forward to getting some things written down, officially, on the internets. Welcome beautiful people.