I'd met Steve LB at the strawberry party last week and we said we should get together again. We met at the organic vegetable shop on the Chiang Mai campus where he left his bicycle - outside the gates after I learned that lesson last week - and we started to walk across the campus and caught one of the free shuttles that took us the center of the campus. From there we walked to the main entrance on the north, passing the department of statistics along the way.
Steven's been running a business that brings US students to cultural immersion programs in Nepal and Peru. He's spent nearly the last six months in Thailand and we went to the vegetarian restaurant I'd been to before. After dinner we had coconut ice cream - J and I had coffee and Steven had durian.
Then we walked through the night market behind the resturant - lots and lots of little shops aimed at the students on campus across the street. Steven found a new friend at one of the shops. They had a good laugh.
Steven is headed south soon so we probably won't get to see him again this trip, but we had some great conversation and we're sorry he's leaving. I'm sure everyone at the strawberry party last week has interesting stories like steven does.
Most of the day were stayed inside, resting, and I did some work for my seminar Monday.
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