I had a really fantastic day today! We were very successful getting surveys done because we went early in the morning before the men left to work for the day (the majority of the men there work in agriculture, it’s primarily rice and sugar cane fields here, some are rickshaw-wallahs, some are shopkeepers, and some have business, or academic jobs). Yesterday evening we were also very successful, but we also almost started a fight. A man went past us pulling a van (the rickshaw with the platform instead of a seat) and said something rude to us (or perhaps just to me, and I’m not sure how rude it was, probably something along the lines of hey-there-pretty-lady, the sort of thing American woman are already used to!) and Ripon, our 15 year old guide, started yelling
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