there it is... this morning we finally finished the powerpoint presentation that JZ (john zacharias our teacher) was to present to some shenzhen urban planners. last week was a period of intense counting (pedestrians and vehicles), morphological and other observations and debating about our area of study in shenzhen, Hua Qian Bei, a former industrial area now turned into one of the biggest commercial and electronic industries in china. the discussion with the planners today was very interesting though very slow because everything needed to be translated by our two chinese colleagues (meeting lasted almost 4 hours). i wish i could put some pictures on the blog, but it's difficult to download in so little time. i'll probably be able to do that in shanghai... talking of which, the group for shanghai has been growing day by day. we are now perhaps 5 people in total to go there, including Dale who knows someone who lives there and Zhan who speaks chinese. i'll probably have to be on my own to follow up to bejing but that's not until may 27th or so... emily might join us there i think or perhaps in Hangzhou which is a nice place west of shanghai.
tomorrow we're heading to Guangzhou for a few days (i would like to stay until the end of the week but it seems that many people would prefer to come back to shenzhen earlier... so we'll see) and then probably take the plane to shanghai on the 21st.
pollution is killing us, several of us have a soar throat and no voice but besides that this trip is awesome :) eating mangosteens, fresh mango, the food is gorgeous (i did have a little trouble to get used to it at the beginning (homesick perhaps?) but now the apetite is back!), it hasn't rained so much since the beginning, we've been pretty lucky until now.........................
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