The final countdown - July 9 2012

Time in India is winding down super quickly now. We have less than two weeks to finish up our research and get the data that we need. Luckily we have made some good connections and are flying through surveys. Nate and I have talked with the principal of Nirmala, an all womens college, and obtained permission to give surveys to a few of their classes. We went in this past Monday and administered 100 surveys to 100 females. We have also made connections with another University in Ettimadi, which is a super nice university of Engineering. He has given us permission to come in this upcomming Thursday and hand out more surveys. Lastly, we talked with another college, Bishop Amrose College, and have obtained permission to come back to it as well next Tuesday. With all of these surveys, we aren't forgetting to still pound the street. We have obtained surveys from many of the villagers, both male and female. We will also continue to obtain surveys of people who sit next to us on bus rides, one by one they add up. As long as we get the necessary information that we need from the surveys and a decent number, we should be okay to compile our data and come to some conclusions. In order to understand the data I will most likely be using statistical analysis of number comparison. I will be using percentages and pie charts to express how Indians within my age range's dental habits are influenced by economics, education, and their family size. I haven't had time to heavily look through my surveys, but I've glanced briefly and I am excited to look at the results.  As far as our post travel of India goes, we are super excited. We will be hitting up a lot of locations and going from one site to another will keep us very busy. The south doesn't have as much to offer when it comes to site to see. We have seen a lot of them, which was fine, but they aren't as recognized and grandeous as the ones up North. We also know that there will be a lot more tourism up there so everything will be super busy which will suck. Were putting together our schedule and getting ready to book our plane and train tickets so that we can for sure make it to the places that we want to go.  Anways, I'm really busy keeping up with friends that we have made here, research that is taking place, fighting off this weird body weakness that my body is battling, and getting my dental job shadow hours completed