Planning and instructions are given through the WeChat group (around 200 people). Today we wear the event's polo shirt.
The whole summer school take busses and go to the museum of proof of Japan attrocities by Unit 731 during WW2.
After, we go to a place where everybody plays water fight, dance, sing, and eat bbq. Fun time.
Collecting data. Failing at it. Falling behind. I hear that lots of people work during their free time, sometimes late at night. My group does tonight, I'm invited to, but I don't do so. I start questionning the relevence of data usage by students for various reasons.
Doing personal stuff today.
Trying massages in the evening.
Energy balance sheet of Malawi in 2013-2014. Others are preparing maps and graphics. I'm getting lost on the job. I'm told to take it easy. Packs of questions about the way work is done arises to my mind.
Going to Harbin city center.
Many people take pictures of us, not in a very subtle way.
Presentation. Buy carbon, not gold.
Using GIS maps. Researching various stuff related to the work but not directly connected to our tasks (useless for the group).
We move to another hotel to work. The firs one is reciving another event.
I wonder where are the homeless people. I've seen none.
The editor of Nature Sustainability presents the journal and her work.
The supervisor asks if I can do an interview, "just one phrase". I accept. Then when I get there, I have to improvise a speech, in front of technical team and to other people in a small room.
Everything goes fast.
I miss the final presentation of my group.
Buying tickets to Heihe. Goodbyes.