 My name is Ana Alejandra Leal. I'm from Mexico. I study environmental sciences back home and right now I'm doing water management and governance. I was celebrating my birthday and like the next day the letter arrived I was like oh my god this is the best gift ever. You know like a bittersweet emotion to live home but also to start something completely new and to find out that yeah at the end you you find a family here. The first week was kind of an easy way to start to be involved with this new life but then the modules like the real modules started and yeah to to get into the pace of three weeks and three weeks and the topics change to me in the beginning was a little bit confusing. When you are here you realize that you are not the only one looking for you know solutions into water and you can have like personal motivations but you also realize that everybody has professional or also like a super personal motivation to be involved in water. I realized that Mexico and Netherlands began like water relations they are collaborating more in two particular topics one in the southeast of Mexico about the Sargassum bloom in all the Caribbean but particularly in Quintana Roo and also they have another project in the state of Oaxaca related to water and infrastructure. So for my field trip I went back home by being in these two states I I could talk with people that it's involved in the government but also in NGOs and private companies that are doing something towards both cases. The experience in the field make me realize like my reasons why I'm doing this research. Thinking about yeah there are real problems happening there so what are the possibilities to to contribute in the solution.