In a rut...

So this evening I told my sister all my ideas about the TZ topic, keeping in mind that she knows a lot more than I do on the subject. And she told me it'd be very hard to relate some of the things I'm interested in to her remote village. So it's a bit frustrating, but it was better to find out now than to find myself in a rut later.

And yet I find myself in another rut...

She says that I'll have a lot of time to hang out with her students, and it would be easier to focus my paper on that.

It seems like such a good opportunity to write about TZ, but I'm just having a really hard time finding something both compelling and applicable to my situation...I know I should be waaaay further along in this process.