I was quite worried about how many
people may come to my talk, which started at 9:30 am on Monday. By the time I counted five, my heart
returned to its "normal position": good enough for me.
To my surprise, many people came, more than I ever had when I gave
seminars at the Second Institute of Oceano. Apparently, ecosystem modeling, or OMZ (oxygen
minimum zone), is much more attractive than PO (physical oceano.).
I made a great effort to speak Chinese, and asked the audience to
help me out when I didn't know how to translate some terminology.