work work work

being back in Belem is really nice. we had thanksgiving dinner here the other night and made turkey, mashed potatoes, apple crisp, mango apple pie, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce brazilia style (w/o cranberries, add acerola), amongst other things. all in all it was fun. i ate too much, felt sick (i didnt exactly eat a lot in sao luis), and for the first time here really felt really homesick/nostalgic. im excited to get home. i think all of us here feel that way at this point, as we just desperately try and get through the pain of writing our isps, present, and leave. theres really not much more to take out of the program at this point. and im honestly annoyed at gustavo's insistence we write an "objective scientific paper". i interviewed people and worked with organizations, in an applied sense, to try and see how these organizations, with limited funding but huge environment and health problems in the city, could best serve the peoples needs. theres no objectivity to that, shouldnt be, and it would be wrong to try and present the paper as a cold hard science document. i dont see how one can be objective in interviewing people anyway about problems. stupid.

anyway, here are a few pictures from my time in sao luis. i didnt take that many, to be honest. i didnt feel the safest walking around with my camerica, because, you know, its not like i didnt get enough strange looks as it is. but, heres what i have.

organizaing my paper is hard. i still dont really have anything written. i have until thursday, but i need to figure out how im going to put it all together and do the rest of the background research today, more or less.
i have a small outline

1. background
1. introduction
2. ecological public health (roots in 19th century, new risks)
3. epidemiological transition
4. water and the developing world
   
5. sao luis
1. development and health
2. funding cuts and state of affairs
3. caema and water
2. objective of the study
3. methods
1. location and sites
2. interview techniques, how many, etc
4. results
1. organize into several groups and give overview/summary of main consensus
   
1. by neighborhood
1. sao franscisco
2. monte castello
3. coroadinho
4. overall summary
2. by organization initiatives
1. asp
2. urban union
3. solar
4. overall
3. by organization personnel and personal opinion
4. comparative chart?
2. or do a bunch of small comparative sections? i dont know

either way i need more background on CAEMA and on water health in general.
back to work!