The last few days: we watched Insomnia (the Norwegian version) with expats at Chiang Mai University, and our weekly French movie (Blanc). Attended a free meditation session with Green Papaya Sangha with more (cute) expats. And met some PhD students from Cornell who speak fluent-ish Thai (jealous!) at the Best Friends Library – not to mention the friendly Burmese librarians who told us stories while we picked out: Burma Chronicles, and Breaking the Silence.
The librarians recommended lunch:
(bean soup and chicken and potato curry – soo good)
I spent many hours learning Thai via Jenga (the best way) at the Free Bird Cafe (with my coconut milk cinnamon mocha – ridiculous). On the way home, we decided to walk around a few temples we saw from the road:
We went on a ruins-seeking mission, where we mostly got lost and rode the motorcycle in circles.
And we consumed the best cocoa of all time at Heart Made Patisserie.
The red shirts are protesting today on the fourth anniversary of the coup that removed Thaksin from office. Near the best place for cow mon gai (chicken over rice), they’ve been selling red-colored shirts, rallying. In a long email from the US Consulate – detailing the many, many ways in which I could die a terrible death in Thailand – I have been told to stay home (or at least away from tourist locations).
Coincidentally, Chiang Mai is also having Car Free Day (the events are planned for the same areas as the red shirt protests…). So maybe we’ll walk to Wawee, where Im will be meeting with an expat who may want to learn Thai! Otherwise, I am planning a GRE practice test from home (which I am strangely excited about).
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