How realistic is it for a foreign student to visit a different country and discover the problems and measure the challenges that nation faces in peace building process? How reliable is the analysis of the student’s two week stay in a country and is there a sufficient time to conduct their researches and go back to their academia’s with the deliverables? Are these deliverables prepared with objective perspectives or from bias bases? Of course being aware of due takes, taking fieldwork reporting class and being prepared before the research helps in completing the task but is it sufficient enough for an unexperienced researcher to shut down its subjective perception and deliverable based on it. And how much moral obligation do we have to ask a burning questions that makes some of the interviewees upset or angry? Is it possible for a foreigner and inexperienced person to feel the boundaries? Do these boundaries depend on the knowledge that we got in academia, or the experience from traveling around the world as tourists, or being raised in a perfect district of Monterey and driving a nice car, or do we get this built into our perception measurer of the boundaries in the families, societies we grew up. All these are so unconditional extremes and we cant be sure. We are like newborn birds kicked out from their nests. We come almost blind, inexperienced sniffing, tasting, gazing, watching around and trying to systematize the new world according to what we used to. We try to measure and adjust things to what we are used to know or hear. But how it is applicable? Do all that we measure and give significance to really matter for the people we interview? Or are they telling the things we want to hear? And even when they talk, what is really important for them to be heard by us and can we hear them all? All these questions were and are in my head since I went to my first research. I hope that everyone who is going to conduct a social research for the first time does not experience discomfort and doubt every single step or interaction they make.f
