ISP this!

I don't think I have mentioned this before, but a major part of the Macalester-Maastricht one year abroad(not really for me) extravaganza is this monster called the ISP (Independent Study Project). For the last 4 months I have been here I have pseudo-worked on this project. Initially I was really excited...I was going to write about minority language rights. I had already written two papers about language politics in classes last semester - I was really enthusiastic about it. No, seriously I felt that I had found my academic calling. I emailed professors at mac for advice, researched EU laws and such. Then sometime around February my advisor told me that I was ignoring my location. I wanted to write my comparative globalization paper about the EU and the US. The advisor said that I should focus on this place in the Netherlands called Friesland (which apparently has its own language that is not Dutch). Now this wasn't exactly what I had in mind. I mean I like the Netherlands, i think its wonderful, great even, but somehow comparing the US with Friesland did not sound exciting to me. So my advisor and I reached a compromise and now I am studying Belgium instead. Again, not exactly what I had in mind but at least there is more to read and write about.
The problem is that in the last few months (I don't know why) I have lost the will to work on this project (I mean I should be doing that right now, but I am blogging instead). I am supposed to turn in an introduction with a research question, with a detailed outline, a preliminary conclusion and key sources to the advisor tomorrow.

Problem 1: With the exception of the conclusion I turned in a document very similar to what I just described to him 3 weeks ago. The page limit for this assignment is 3 pages (I turned in 4 last time).

Problem 2: I don't really have a conclusion. I barely have some research.

Problem 3: He/Mac (I am not sure who to scapegoat for this) wants us to do interviews with people. Apart from the fact that I do not know whom to interview (after taking a few stats classes, talking to some students from Belgium does not seem to be a very rigorous methodology), I can't really speak French, and obviously Flemish is out of the question.

Problem 4: I have really stopped caring about this project. It is strange because in the end this whole thing is just a twenty page paper. I know I will be able to write it so it isn't very scary, but somehow this project that I was so excited about in January is the least exciting part of my study abroad now.

Problem 5: (Which I am in serious denial about,) we have to present our papers come June 5th at a "symposium". Send me good wishes ... I will need them.