Yesterday we visited the Airport Plaza, a fairly nice shopping centre. Then went to see The Terminal with Tom Hanks. It’s a good movie and I was surprised at how well Catherine Zeta Jones did in it.
Jeff got his hair cut today while I visited the wats. I visited Wat Pan Ping opposite our Safe House Guest House. It’s a fine Wat but the best part was chatting with a local Thai person. He was a lawyer and had an office beside our Guest House. He’d been educated at the Wat as a young monk, as that’s the only way he could afford to get educated. Now he was doing lawyer work for free for them in repayment. He was a very nice person and enjoyed telling me about the Wat, his education there and his working in Bangkok and other places before returning to Chiang Mai.
Watched The Green Mile again. Met a Dutch guy at the Guest House while waiting for Jeff to come back from work at Starbucks. He had some very interesting stories to tell. He had lost his right hand at 28 years old in a fireworks accident. He had a tough life, he smoked and drank to excess but made no excuses for it. He freely admitted to being an alcoholic. He kept a couple of cases of beer in his room all the time. The stories he told about being in Brooklyn and fights he got himself into were hair raising. He has a girlfriend of 10 years. He survives on disability payments but also trades in T-shirts which he exports from Thailand and sells in Holland at huge profit.
Also met a US TELF teacher. She and her husband and 10 month old son were in Chiang Mai to continue their careers as TEFL teachers. They wanted to bring their son up in Thailand or the Asian community as they felt that it was a better upbringing for a child than in the US. They’re right. They’d taught in many places including Indonesia, Malaysia, China and Java.
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