First thoughts on the group project

The aim of this group project is still quite undefined. All three members are going up North to stay for 9 days helping in the relief effort of a town in Iwate Prefecture.

Obviously our research method is going to be primarly “participant observation”, and as such we have no idea of what we are going to find or how we are going to relate it to the class. But this first hand experience will provide substantial information to work with.

One of our objectives, if possible, is to get media footage (in the form of videos and pictures) and even try to interview some of the people working there for the NGO. However, this remains uncertain since we do not know if we will be allowed or actually have the means to do it while we are working with the relief effort.

So, to sum things up, the members of this group are going to help as volunteers in the relief effort in Iwate, and we will take it from there.

(this is where we are going, still a lot of work to do)