While the rest of our group was traveling to Burirum, Chris, Robin and me went for a meeting at the Bangkok Forum. Here we went to get a deeper insight in the plans of the Ufa-Fabrik that is being set up in Bangkok. Here we found out that our intentions of just tagging along and giving our input, instead of dropping down ideas of how we think things should be done, was the right way to go.
I am still very passionate about the whole project, but working from the angle of being an absolute stranger in this country, city and community is still a very strange way to approach something like this.
After a very intense meeting sitting on the floor ( so not so strange than at our little school )
, we went to visit the outside anti-drug festival in front of the office. We signed up and got a better connection with our hosts. A lot of dodgy thai dishes alway does the trick. There were a lot of dance performances from local youth-groups, very inspiring being in an environment We even met Dr. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, who whe've met at the I-Genius World Summit. So the world, or at least this country, isn't that big after all.
Taking from this I witnessed that, wether it could be labelled as innovative or not, good and social events are seriously just all over the place. Does the label actually matter when you're just doing good?