To do List:

Sometimes taking on projects like this can seem overwhelming and impossible. It's like what my biology teacher used to say "How do you eat and elephant?" . . . "One bite at a time." So I figure I better start figuring out what my "bites" are going to be for this project.
Here is a list just from the top of my head:
Read up on Mexican culture and the crazy awesome stuff they do and what life is like
How the heck am I going to find subjects/ volunteers?

• in the schools 
• in my host family
• go door to door
• put up flyers
• offer some sort of compensation- what? tamales?
• ?????

IRB approval- woah I don't even know where to begin with that yet so I won't even worry about it for the moment.
I need to figure out how to conduct the study.

• Talk to Dr. Mitchell to get a more in depth understanding of how to take the measurements.
• Email Amy- the girl that conducted the study in Ghana.
• Talk to the PTs in my internship.
• Find other articles related to my study

I need to practice conducting my study. How?

• On my nieces/nephews
• find kids- neighbors
• also figure out how to explain it to adults so they know what is going on
• what are the main points?
• How can I simplify it to explain it in spanish and also to uneducated rural mexicans?
• Start with the vocab- 2 new Spanish words a day relating to my project.
• Practice it on people- first Americans then Spanish speakers
• Get my friend from Spain to help me- and maybe those coordinators

Write the questionnaire or get it from Amy
Translate the questionnaire to Spanish

• get help with that!

Improve that Spanish

• Institute in Spanish (on going)
• Talking with Sylvia (on going)
• Cultural email from Natalie- pick an activity
• Go to a Mexican restaurant/tienda speak with the natives
• Two new Spanish vocab words a day (on going)
• Etc etc etc

immunizations
course contracts- sociology and anthropology
flights
passport whatnot
scholarship applications- ISP, grants, BYU
that's all I want to write about today but before I end I'll make a couple goals for this week

• pick a Spanish service activity to participate in
• email Amy
• research Mexico
• find other articles related to my study

Okay that's it. I'll let you know what I've done next time.