When things don't go the way we plan...we adapt and make the most out of it

Today we had planned to go to Tecoh and work with a Maya grandmother. Hugo picked me up at 6.30am so we would have time to get the car, the equipment and the two other fieldworkers, Graciela and Frida (who is also an aeroplane pilot. How cool is this?)

By 8.30am we were waiting to meet our contact in the southern part of Merida. Our contact was the grandmother's daughter (i.e. the mother of the child whose nutritional status we have already assessed! Remember this is an intergenerational study and we are only interested in the matrilineal side of the question). Easy!

So we waited and waited and went to check at the lady's house and then went back to the school but she was nowhere to be seen.

This is one of the classrooms of the school

The school is in front of a deactivated medical centre...
however, today we saw about 20 nurses running a
vaccination programme in the area

Eventually we found the mother but, by then, she was unable to go with us and the assessment was reschedule for next week.

Hugo and Graciela talking to the mother and rescheduling the appointment to assess the grandmother

The following photos show a little bit of the area

Outside the school

Selling t-shirts

Wind mill

We ended up having breakfast (by then it was 9.30am) and discussed several strategies to disseminate the results of the study between the families, the schools and the community in southern Merida. Some good ideas came up. This dissemination part of the project will start in a couple of weeks.

This is us during the breakfast meeting. Only coffee by then, the food was about to come and we looked perkier a little while after this shot was taken!!

Hugo, Graciela, Ines and Frida...making the best out of a change of plans!