The last few days have been proper work days, consulting style. It's not that we didn't work long days last week, it's just the heat has been turned up this week, both with data analysis and interviews. And let me tell you, talking to people is exhausting! Jess described it well when she said her head feels like the snow you see on televisions--just so much information. I replied, we're going to be lying on the beach in Zanzibar and suddenly something will emerge from this snow and we'll be "Eureka!" so we better carry around paper and pens. When you're in the midst of it, it's almost just too much. Maybe that's how I'll justify this week-long vacation. :)
Every person we interview, the information just gets more dense and overlapping--perhaps just like the health system itself--and the more people it seems we need to talk to from there on out. I'm like, people, I barely have 3 more weeks! And there's a second, data analysis piece which is its whole own barrel of fun...
Still, we went to downtown Dar tonight, the colonial part, and saw a view of the harbor. The huge cargo ships dropping stuff off, etc. It was our last night with Tom, one of the technical consultants there and we had a grand time psychoanalyzing all of us, making all sorts of absurd innuendos about cashew nuts (I think you had to be there), and generally having a grand old time. I'm glad he dragged us out or else we would have been in this house all day.
Tomorrow it's off to Nairobi for the weekend...more from there. Now to sleep so can get up and work again.
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