Post 9

The hardest part of my research is probably trying to make connections from observing and talking to the team. It is kind of hard to assume some things without being bias. My sister tells me things about people and like everyone else would, I think about what she said when I see them. But since I have been trying to make a correlation between the players on and off of the field, I have to put all of that aside.
If I were to start over I think that there really isn't much that I could change except for my approach. When I started to write out my draft explaining what I was going to write about and how I was going to do things, I had a lot of ideas that only led me to some confusion and a lot of questions that I really wouldn't have been able to answer. After looking over everything I narrowed it down to only a few subjects. If I would have kept my subculture exploration a little more compacted and had fewer outsiders then I could have gotten a lot done sooner.
Keeping a blog has kind of helped me keep my thoughts straight. When we do in class work and write in our blogs I initially write one thing and then when we go over it I think of more things to add on. Also, I think that if i wasn't keeping track of everything I would be repeating myself frequently. Since I am typing something about every other day, I can pick out things that I am restating.
In preparing for my mini-ethnography I plan on writing my paper with everything I have already wrote about in my other drafts and then going back over my blog posts and checking over them to add any information that I haven't mentioned.