Scholarships, computers and methodology

The pace of life and study seems to have picked up quite significantly this past week. The most significant event was notification that I have been awarded a Masterate Scholarship . Now I can really get into this knowing I will have the money to get to Latin America and carry out the research. Very exciting!
I have also recently acquired a laptop (to be more specific a second-hand IBM Thinkpad). Although I've been getting by on reams of paper and shared computers I now feel I can really get going- I just have to figure out how get it hooked up to the university network.
As far as the research itself goes I am currently wrestling with the methodology, specifically my role as a researcher and/or nurse. I had thought I would perhaps work with the teams while collecting data however I'm now wondering (prompted by some readings from the nursing research literature) that in fact that taking a dual role may well be confusing for community participants, not to mention that it may possibly bias the research. If I was studying the teams themselves then full partipation would probably be appropriate but I'm becoming more interested now in the researching medical missions as they relate to the commnuity and local health services so I am now defintely moving away from the idea of doing any nursing at all.
While all this is going on in my head my supervisor has reminded me it is time to start making contacts in Honduras. I am using the internet to start compiling a list of teams planning trips and organisations I might contact. I probably should also look at sending emails to various organisations and contacts. However if there's anybody actually reading this who is aware of medical teams who will be in Honduras between Nov. 04 and Feb. 05 I'd love to hear from you- click the comments link below to post me a message!