There are so many to say during the past two weeks….
First of all, I finished a great sugarcane visits in both Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. We met farmers, sugar mills, experts in the research institute and government authorities. By interviewing people and going to the field to check out the real planting situation, we gathered valuable information in terms of variety, labor rate, and customers’ expectations in mechanization. I was so excited when seeing the cane field the first time. Beautiful color combination of green and yellow on the flat field, so lively and shining!
During this trip, we not only gathered an overview of Yunnan province, we also got latest customers; movement from the past harvesting season. It is so surprising that both farmers and sugar mills changed their mentality so fast. Just a year before, the mills still complain about how high the trash content from machine harvested canes are and how easily the billets lose the sugar. But what we heard from today, is how they are willing to change the row spacing to be prepared for larger scale of mechanization! The locals and aboriginals are so hospitable that they took us for dinner every night (also drinking!!!). Thanks that I earned some tricks so that I could “pretend” that I drank a lot.
Except from the business trip and the hiking on the wild great wall (which is funny like crazy!), I got some bad luck for keep losing stuff……..When I got back from the South, I found my roommate tossed my laptop in the trash accidently a week ago….Though I went back to the neighborhood for searching and posted some notice, seeking there is still hope, so far I haven’t heard anything yet. Another is that I lost my travel certificate and passport with the US VISA in it. The tedious process to reapply those documents almost drove me nuts. This is the first time I felt the loneness and hopeless in this country. Though we speak the same language but the cultural background and working attitude are so different that make me depressed by the officers so easily. What’s worse, even the driver also lied to me the forbidden city is closed a couple days ago so that h can drive us to a further place from downtown. Sometime I am wondering: “It’s because of my Taiwanese accent or it’s just the way the dealt with others?” Okay….just wish me good luck on my ID application process!
My schedule for the following weeks would include some factory visits within China and potential seminar about my project. As two-third of my internship is done, I would start preparing my final presentation. Let’s go for it!
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