FPA: Days 7, 8 & 9 ... and Wandering Around the City at Night

Over the past four days, not much has happened.  As far as work goes, our group has gotten a good amount of work done.  Monday, we needed to go and meet with our advisor at AFAC (another group's sponsor, our liasion works there).  They told us how they want the final project to look so now we have a better idea.  He also added Japan and Israel to our list of countries.  Our survey rate is around 35% now.  Our advisors originally expected 10% and told us if we got 15%, it would be a miracle.

Tuesday was a regular day really.  We've been going through our info from the interview we had last week and I've started setting up our database.  Wednesday, we went back to AFAC and needed to give our presentation YET AGAIN via teleconference.  Apparently our sponsers feel our project is the most important but we feel it is too easy.  We want to be eligible for the President's Award but it's not all that exciting.  We're trying to find ways to make our project more interesting.  Today, we will probably work through more stuff involving the datatbase and our background section, which is due next Tuesday.

Oh, and now our sponsor wants our project done two weeks before it's actually due.  Oh boy.

Outside of work, things have been kind of boring.  Monday, we were bored so me, John and Brian walked down to the Docklands (waterfront of Melbourne).  There are pictures in the slideshow under the album "The Docklands".  Tuesday, we decided to jump on a train and go wherever it took us.  Luckily, it took us to the furthest point possible from Melbourne, called Frankston.  This place was one of the sketchiest places I've ever been.  We managed to find a Safeway and hung out there for a while before leaving.  We didn't really want to continue walking around the street there.  Last night, six of us (Me, John, Brian, Kemal, Chris and Rachel) walked back down to the Docklands again and circled the city.  Tonight, I think we are going next door.  There is a rock climbing wall that everyone wants to try.

-Tim