Into the bush

Note: this is a retroactive post, that I didn't get to finishing- the power died. This should have been a post from Wednesday night (the 7th).

So tomorrow I'm headed upcountry to Apac, where apparently even a native like Hasifa finds the food to be extremely basic and hard to survive off of, and the sleeping arrangements are to the point where she would "give her right hand" to not sleep in the village, and rather go to the nearest town. I'm going with Yecka, her colleague who is in charge of the field work, and he's more of the tough guy who doesn't like wasting time- thus he's booked a room in Apac for me and him I think... haha. Some other people apparently are coming up as well, and they're apparently bringing a whole caravan of 3-4 cars, which Hasifa and Yecka think is a bit much for the few number of people that are coming. They may go to the nearest town to stay, in which case, if it's ridiculous, I may wuss out and go with them.

I'm heading out at 7 am tomorrow, and the ride is projected to take 5 hours, so I'll be there around 12 pm if all goes well. My job is to photocopy the log books they have there and get the most recent data, and to just see in general how the process works.