Solar Generation

Thursday 4th May, we begin slowly...

After a French breakfast, we arrive at the ADB Meeting. We attend a seminar on energy, especially renewable energy, with many NGOs. It was very interesting. Then we lunch in the Japanese garden (I know, we eat a lot, but I think it is due to the climate change between Thailand and Japan! Lol). In the afternoon, I have to take part in a meeting with the Diplomat of Greenpeace and “Gerd” the Director of Greenpeace but there is a problem with the UK delegates... Therefore, I try to meet the French delegation but it is busy so I give a paper to signal my presence. But I have had an interesting debate with Gerd about the next French presidential elections.

So, I join my friends to make the bookmarks with cherry blossoms which we want to distribute Sunday to each important delegate. It is very symbolic, and a mean to begin a discussion with them. I really want thank Cheng for her big work for these bookmarks, I’m really impressed. I note that the ADB Meeting is very strategic. There is a lot of meetings between many countries and many structures (enterprise, NGOs, manager etc.). It is very interesting. It is a kind of Model United Nation. You have to negotiate and try to convince the other.

But the most exciting event of the day was the reception the evening: a lot of food and a wonderful Geisha’s show (which reminds me the book “Memory of a Geisha”). I thank Agnes since thanks to her I discovered the delicious Japanese desert (taste vegetable…very strange, it was very hard to eat!). Thank her for her patient towards us and her beautiful work. Moreover, I invite you to look her picture (in sumo) on the French blog www.solargeneration.fr : it is worth being seen! It was a very beautiful and funny evening, but now it’s late, so good night everybody....