A Short Afternoon at Cubbon Park:
After yesterday's talk with Biome, in which we were advised to bring Manjunath with us to help show us where the wells are, which changed our entire experience. We were under the impression that he had managed the project, but it was clear he had spent a lot of time actually in the park because he knew the exact locations of all of the wells. In under an hour, we were able to mark out ten new wells, bringing our total up to 30 wells out of 70. We were lucky to have Manjunath for another reason, too: during our marking of well 29, a man sitting on the side of the well called out to us and asked us what we were doing. He was sitting with a group of other men, and seemed very entitled and stuck up. He repeatedly demanded to know who gave us permission, if we were working for the government, and where our documentation was. He didn't listen to our explanation that we were interning with Biome, and that we were marking out wells to build a cohesive map of the wells in Cubbon Park. We had to have Manjunath come over to mitigate, and he spent almost 15 minutes talking to this man. Upon talking to Uma and Manjunath after the fact, they told us that we shouldn't worry about being questioned this way, that this man just wanted to show off and act big. This is apparently common for Manjunath, and since he is officially permitted to work in the park, we were told that as long as he was there to guide us we would have no problem. It was an experience, an interaction that marked out an otherwise very productive afternoon in the park. We are looking forward to working with Manjuvath again tomorrow, and hopefully finishing marking out the rest of the wells so that we can move on to the report, presentation and poster!
-GCIL 2020 Interns (Veronique, Eric, Kayla, Tessa)
After yesterday's talk with Biome, in which we were advised to bring Manjunath with us to help show us where the wells are, which changed our entire experience. We were under the impression that he had managed the project, but it was clear he had spent a lot of time actually in the park because he knew the exact locations of all of the wells. In under an hour, we were able to mark out ten new wells, bringing our total up to 30 wells out of 70. We were lucky to have Manjunath for another reason, too: during our marking of well 29, a man sitting on the side of the well called out to us and asked us what we were doing. He was sitting with a group of other men, and seemed very entitled and stuck up. He repeatedly demanded to know who gave us permission, if we were working for the government, and where our documentation was. He didn't listen to our explanation that we were interning with Biome, and that we were marking out wells to build a cohesive map of the wells in Cubbon Park. We had to have Manjunath come over to mitigate, and he spent almost 15 minutes talking to this man. Upon talking to Uma and Manjunath after the fact, they told us that we shouldn't worry about being questioned this way, that this man just wanted to show off and act big. This is apparently common for Manjunath, and since he is officially permitted to work in the park, we were told that as long as he was there to guide us we would have no problem. It was an experience, an interaction that marked out an otherwise very productive afternoon in the park. We are looking forward to working with Manjuvath again tomorrow, and hopefully finishing marking out the rest of the wells so that we can move on to the report, presentation and poster!
-GCIL 2020 Interns (Veronique, Eric, Kayla, Tessa)
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