 The fieldwork is a two-week trip to southern France in Dignée-les-Bains where we are based. We will live in a campsite and it's in Provence, in southern France. It's a two-week field trip for the hydrology and water resource students and ten days field trip for fieldwork for the river basin development students. The whole idea of this fieldwork is that the students get to apply what they have learned throughout the past modules, back home, back at ENDALFT, in reality, in practice, something that we'll also be doing once they finish their course. The first day that we are in the field we do, we call it the geo-work. It's about eight hours geological work, we observe along a mountain road, a small road, and we observe all the geological formations which are there, the type of rocks. We take samples, we analyze them with the lens, with the compass, we measure the deep strike of the layers. And then the second and the third day, those are experimental days in which they learn to use several tools and do field experiments with discharge measurements, geophysical surveying, drilling, borehole log descriptions, some chemistry. We look at sediments in rivers. Here, for example, we're doing sediment tests, and it's quite important for designing structures on rivers or how to understand the behavior of the river. To look at the distribution of sediments, we look at methods how to characterize basins. So I think from an educational point of view it's a very important step that people go to the field and measure, because behind your computer and from the books or the theory it's all nice, but these students now learn that there's a big difference between theory and practice. You have to be here in the field and see the things are not so perfect. You can drill a hole until stone, and then you have to start over again. And in the future, in their jobs, it's very important when they send out people to the field that they really know, remember this feeling of being in the field. Later, when they use data in models, for example, or for evaluating how much water there is in the river, they have some feeling about, well, how accurate is that data and what they can value it because they now understand what it means to actually capture discharge data. And then they go into the field with their assignments, different assignments, and for the hydrology and water resource students, this is getting to know the time-dependent water balance of a catchment and what are the factors that influence that water balance. Also land use is a very important aspect there. So if you have human activities that are everywhere around us and how they affect both the hydrological system in terms of quantity as well as quality, how they affect the quality of the water. Yesterday also we did water quality analysis. We identified the water type. We are getting a lot of experience. This is important to know what happens, for example, if there's a rainfall event. How quickly will the water end up in the river and do we have to take measures? But also on the longer term, what if scenarios? What if the climate changes and more rainfall or the rainfall will be more intense? What will happen in that catchment? The river-based development participants design a sediment protection structure like a check dam so to avoid sediment to come downstream and be sedimented nearby the villages. But they need, of course, to measure the profile of the river, the cross sections, but also discharge and other characteristics of that river basin. And that will help them make a solid engineering design. Our studies often depend on our models' dependent data but what does it mean to capture that data in the field? How do you do it and also what sort of mistakes can you make and how accurate is that data? We think that's extremely important for using that data later on in modelling studies. They'll be working on those catchments in small groups and then in the end they will have to report on what they found in their catchment affecting the hydrology of that system and the water balance of it. I'm usually working on administrative stuff, mostly upper document. This is a brand new experience for me that I can actually go on the field side to work on different experiences. Field visit is a kind of reflection of what we have been taught in a class. All the things that I see in the books, most of them we get to see it here so it's interesting and a good experience for me. It's good to know and to understand how things work and how they do it and how hard it is sometimes. Are there lynxes? Oh! Hey, wait! Yeah, one more time. Do you squeeze it like this?