On Jun 11th, after taking photos with all the teachers and students, three graduates –Zhang Jiyun（张霁云）, Wang Shuang（王霜） and Zhang Ruiling（张瑞玲） feasted the whole group on tasty Hunan cuisine. We sang while enjoying the excitement and went back after enjoying ourselves to the full. School’s out, memories are past. Don’t ever doubt our friendship will last. Congratulations to three graduates!
Ruiling with her comrade.
On May 31th, Weiru got involved in the activity to popularize environmental scientific knowledge to primary students, which was organized by Huanghua Primary School. That was a sunny day and kids were super cute that they put on performances including taekwondo, sing and poetry recitation. They were so brilliant that I could ignore the intense heat of summer.
Based on the story of DDT, Weiru designed a 剧本杀 game to let the students experience the whole process of scientific research, including pointing out the problem, designing sampling campaign, lab work and even putting forward controlling measurements. It was far beyond our imagination that kids at their age could easily clarifying the meaning of POPs, biodegradation and extraction (feeling proud of them!). I am more convinced that China’s scientific research will have a bright future!
Kids under the sun and buildings with pretty paintings.
Amazing taekwondo performance.
Us with letters of appointment.
He was answering the question about how to select a representative sampling site. 
They were all very concentrated and enthusiastic.
On May 17-19, Gan Zhang, Shizhen Zhao and Weiru Wang attended the POPs Forum 2022 held in Qingdao, which has been postponed till 2023 due to the COVID-19. Gan delivered an excellent presentation on POPs in atmosphere. We also met Limin Hu and Tian Li in Qingdao. Thanks for Prof. Tian and Prof. Limin’ s enthusiastic guide, we went a wonderful sightseeing in Zhanqiao (栈桥) and Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学, OUC for short) for nice food and fun hiking at night. Besides, we also do appreciate that Prof. Xinhong Wang and Prof. Jianhui Tang treat us to fancy dinner. All in all, it was a wonderful journey for academic exchanges and old friends gathering together.
The delegation. (from left to right: Limin, Tian, Gan, Shizhen and Weiru)
Gan gave an oral presentation, gaining legions of fans.
Prof. Tian with a typical poker face.
Elegant Prof. Xinhong.
Prof. Jianhui.
Cutie Shizhen with her loving lager and “五月的风” (one of the landmarks of Qingdao) on hand. What a powerful beauty!
Qingdao definitely has the best beer in the world! Say hooray for Qingdao beer!
Say “yeah” to our lives. 😊
Hiking around the sea, admiring the boat and the sparkling sea at sunset.
We at OUC.
Gan’ s posture of 地化人 (specialists in geochemistry) has to be highlighted. 🙂