Today, we got up at 5.30 again, left the guesthouse before sunrise, and stayed out working until the sun went down. Elli did evaporation measurements, and then I (and Elli and Desiré) did four transect walks à approximately two kilometers each together with villagers. Almost ten kilometers walked in heat and sun.
Sunrise and a baobab tree.
Elli measuring her lysimeters at dawn with a very attentive audience.
Animals eating the leftovers in a harvested millet field.
The village was called Robena. Spelled differently, and in Mooré, the name means ‘where the elephant’s tusks lie’. There was a tree in the middle of the village, and we were told that underneath that tree, an elephant was buried. This was where guests to the village where offered to sit, because it held the power of the elephant.
The sun going down over Reko.
I’m so exhausted now, I could die. More transect walks tomorrow, though. The life of a master student.
Katja Malmborg 