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.
Paromita wrote to update her life and family. I see big change taken place, but happy to know that life is going on peacefully/normally after the roller ride. I am very happy to see the three lovely girls luckly staying with Paromita and Elvis the family. She has been promoted to professor and head of Centre for Research in environment, sustainability advocacy and climate change of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, in SRM University, at Tamil Nadu, India.
I would like to share the following updating message from Paro with all former and current group members. Cherish our life!
【Dear Prof Gan, After a long time, I am writing you. Both professionally and personally I was taking some time to understand my new roles and responsibilities. I have now become a mother of three daughters. Last year was therefore a roller coaster ride for us but slowly things are taking the normal course. Unfortunately during the peak pandemic phase lot of kids lost their parents and me and my husband, Elvis is now the new parent to three little princesses who were left alone in a home after the death of their parents. I can’t believe they are with us for just one year now. Life is way more beautiful and fun-filled with them around. They are our life-line and by God’s grace, everything is moving forward in our lives.
Me, Elvis, and our daughters Shayna (11yrs), Isha (9yrs), and Myra (7yrs) wish you to visit us someday in India with your family and my little ones get to see my stalwart mentor who taught me not only science but also special aspects of life.】
