Patrick: Because Minyan is from Dongchuan. What I knew is that I wanted to retire in Yunnan. I love Yunnan, Yunnan is such a beautiful place. It reminds me a bit of Africa where I was born. It's a kind of a mixture between Africa and China, Africa at the beginning of my life and Yunnan at the end. So I want to live in Yunnan. Minyan had a friend who was actually running this place. Actually this place didn’t work. there was no water, no electricity, it was far from everything. When we came here there was nothing, just the beauty of the nature, and I said to Minyan, “that's the place where I think we should settle”

Minyan said, “Why, are you sure?”

I said, “Yes! Here we can really combine you as a Chinese me as a foreigner. We can combine our differences in order to do something useful, which should be help the community to move to ecology in the most deep going and sustainable way.”