Getting my scales wet for my first fieldwork for 2013!
I am once again on the road to my next fieldwork site to do a reconnaissance. This is actually not a project of mine but a volunteer work for another group. But I'm always happy to be of assistance since nothing makes me high than exploring new places and meeting new people.
This time fieldwork is close to home. Bato is a little town 3hrs away from Tacloban, Leyte. We took a passenger van from the downtown area and travelled through sleepy towns and the mountains to arrive at our destination.
The series of fortunate events started when we asked a lady who was in the van with us about Bato and where we can get good accommodations in the area. It so happened that another passenger overheard us and he said that he was a resident and he also knew about Dawahon Island, which is our study site. We got off at the town center and proceeded to the Municipal Hall. Since the mayor was out of the country, we talked to the people left in charge and we got almost all the information we needed! They recommended us a good place to stay and they gave us contact numbers of the boats for hire.
After resting a bit, we went to the port to look for more boats that can be used for the field survey. On the way we saw the man, the resident, who was with us in the van. We asked if he knew any boatman that can be hired for Dawahon. And again, just our luck, his friend was a boatman and was from Dawahon. We went to talk to him and arranged for a trip for the next day. On our way to check out his boat we saw a lady who was busy texting and fortunately it was the boat contact that the staff at the municipal hall gave us so we also saw and took pictures of the boats that they had. We parted ways and my officemate and I realized that we forgot to ask something from the boat lady. We decided that we will just call her through the phone and arrange for another meeting.
We then went back to the port to take pictures of the sunset. At the port, due to another stroke of luck, we saw the lady who was renting out the boats and talked to her about the plans for our fieldwork. We were almost done with our reconnaissance save for the visit at Dawahon which we visited the next day. And the series of fortunate events continued.
I am once again on the road to my next fieldwork site to do a reconnaissance. This is actually not a project of mine but a volunteer work for another group. But I'm always happy to be of assistance since nothing makes me high than exploring new places and meeting new people.
This time fieldwork is close to home. Bato is a little town 3hrs away from Tacloban, Leyte. We took a passenger van from the downtown area and travelled through sleepy towns and the mountains to arrive at our destination.
The series of fortunate events started when we asked a lady who was in the van with us about Bato and where we can get good accommodations in the area. It so happened that another passenger overheard us and he said that he was a resident and he also knew about Dawahon Island, which is our study site. We got off at the town center and proceeded to the Municipal Hall. Since the mayor was out of the country, we talked to the people left in charge and we got almost all the information we needed! They recommended us a good place to stay and they gave us contact numbers of the boats for hire.
After resting a bit, we went to the port to look for more boats that can be used for the field survey. On the way we saw the man, the resident, who was with us in the van. We asked if he knew any boatman that can be hired for Dawahon. And again, just our luck, his friend was a boatman and was from Dawahon. We went to talk to him and arranged for a trip for the next day. On our way to check out his boat we saw a lady who was busy texting and fortunately it was the boat contact that the staff at the municipal hall gave us so we also saw and took pictures of the boats that they had. We parted ways and my officemate and I realized that we forgot to ask something from the boat lady. We decided that we will just call her through the phone and arrange for another meeting.
We then went back to the port to take pictures of the sunset. At the port, due to another stroke of luck, we saw the lady who was renting out the boats and talked to her about the plans for our fieldwork. We were almost done with our reconnaissance save for the visit at Dawahon which we visited the next day. And the series of fortunate events continued.
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| Sunset at the sea port (Bato, Leyte : 31 Jan 2013) |
