Monday August 30

posed some more questions to get family trees and messed up an appointment with one of the most important people in the 'community!' oh well, it'll be ok. also lost some more notes thanks to a gmail fault. not mine!

Sunday August 29

football at night when all the uncles are busy

More media coverage and even more here! Now just saying good byes... and trying to wrap up some missing data.

Saturday August 28

snake!

One way to spend the last days of the research project is to lie sick in bed, immobile. Here's how one young man spent his summer.

Wednesday August 25

you lookin at me????

here's lookin at you, kids

spectacle at brooklyn borough hall

Tuesday August 24

WRAP UP

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... KHUDA HAFIZ???? NOT YET!! "I HAVE JUST GOT  A FEWWWWW MORE QUESTIONS PLEASE!!"

More press in Midwood on Sunday here and also here.  

are you talking to me? am i looking at you?

Sunday August 22

v. important information

Took a break Sunday, stayed mostly dry, and writing up notes. Need to finish surveys this week and collect notebooks.

Friday August 20

local barbershop

Lots of media attention this week. A documentary maker from California, Channel 12, NPR, NY Times, NY 1, and at least one other agency came to the neighborhood to learn about the flood reaction, the Manhattan mosque reaction, among other things. I volunteered in the basement of a popular restaurant and didn't do much else besides. Ate a chicken and rice again, after almost 2 months.

Thursday August 19

popular image in this part of the world

Biked back to Brooklyn, did no real work but some informal observation and took some photos. Last two weeks in BK.

Thursday August 19

popular

Busy. writing up notes. As seen in bk.

Tuesday August 17

paratha and daal at 4:30am at bukhari

Monday August 16

First observation of service in the community that high school students do.

community service

Sunday August 15

Politics in the community... Taken in Manhattan at the Pakistan Consulate. This was an action that featured about 20 people and advocated that Pakistan repatriate Afia.

Friday August 13

writing up notes at this hour, lovely way to stay busy at 1am. Rode to Queens, 10 miles in 50 minutes. Informally interviewed several people and finally got to meet HS.

local politics in midwood

Thursday August 12

Working over time, no time left! Working at night, working in the day, and gosh I gotta step it up!

Wednesday August 11

Made an introduction between a student and a civic organization, and chit chatted about websites and blogs for several hours! Some pictures from the Pak Independence Day Parade, a few days before the Dominican Parade. Well attended and very well organized. The fighting? It's just natural. Also continued the surveying of Coney Island Avenue. And got shitted on by a pigeon right outside a fabric store where a half American half Pakistani was shooting a doc.

:)

doesn't look like he's having any fun

young man helping out with the campaign (NOT ME, I'M JUST POSING)

gora! does this mean this is not a community event?

what is community? where is community?

kids just wanna have fun

Tuesday August 10

Still writing notes at 12:57am from the day. Ramzan starts Thursday.

Monday August 9

6 in the morning!!!!!!! YUM!!!!

satter/sattar same thing??

Wendys for breakfast as the break winds down. Got robbed in the evening when I got back to Queens. Anticipating the start of Ramzan and will return to BK on Tuesday morning. Missed the cricket final and the Brooklyn Mela but ready for the four last weeks of the project!

Sauturday August 7

Taking a break!

Thursday August 5

Monday August 2

"hangama"

truly, yours

Intermission!

Sunday August 1

Some informal interviewing at a parade and some standardized interviews in Midwood on Saturday. So ends 9 weeks of fieldwork. Hopefully the data will be useful, but at least it will get worked into a boring paper with some big words mixed in here and there. There were no fights as previously reported by participants, and lots of folks from out of state. Time for a one week break. And some pizza.