Before going back to China, the development of the project seemed to work in a utopian way. I just imagined everything and revised my project based on the research, the dragon dens, the tutorials…

Even though all the information I got in the past few months was quite useful, the real situations are much more complicated than my presumptions: They indeed gave me more opportunities in stretching out my project, but simultaneously forced me to make selections of the most valuable things and conduct a better time management.

I got a week to stay in Wenzhou, during which I visited the hotel and communicated with the manager about my demands. He suggested the best spot for the event, a semi-closed space in the hotel for sipping tea as well as selling peripheral products. At the same time, it happened that he was preparing for the site visit to some local inheritors of intangible cultural heritage and make guides for hotel guests for sightseeing. I could take the chance to cooperate with him to help produce the tour guides as well as collect more data in enriching the archive.

I also talked about my project to my friends, parents, cousins… and got really good feedback from them. One of their friends, their colleagues, or their old classmates… might be engaging in something related to my project. However, I just felt busy in listening possible opportunities and happy to embrace them, but hard to organize my time in tackling all of them.

And as David told in the unit1 tutorial, planning the timetable for the project is necessary, because I have to consider the time to take a break, to meet friends, to travel around. I was just accustomed to the simple life in London and forgot the complex social network in China: a large amount of time was required in socializing… I found the necessity in adapting myself to such a hustling life as well as finding the pure space and time in researching…