On Friday October 6, 2006, I moved from Wat Rampoeng to Monfai. Yanthai, the super cool 22-year old Buddhist nun (also known as a maeche) came with me. I called a taxi (200 baht) was the price. It turned out to be not a real car but one of those red trucks with benches on either side. The idea is that they pick up multiple people for a cheaper fare. They are not luxurious and certainly not worth 200B. Somehow after the Buddhist nun appeared, the price went down to 100B each. It was quite far. The wat was on the south end of ChangMai while Monfai was on the far north. When we arrived, there was a bit of commotion because by some miscommunication I was thought to arrive the day before. They showed me to my room in a more modern house across the yard and I was introduced Tatiana, a friend of the owners who is European and speaks English. The three of us decided to head into the town to find a vegetarian restaurant. We ended up finding two health food stores and a vegetarian restaurant/stand. Yanthai was on the hunt for brown rice. She purchased a few things and then we had to rush over to eat since she needed to be done eating in public by noon. (At the monastery no one eats after twelve.) I thought she should say a prayer and she didn’t want to say the whole long thing by herself out loud and even after 10 days, I probably couldn’t even fake it. So she said it silently and Tatiana and I just bowed our heads and held our hands in prayer positions. We ate the very spicy food. I went to use the bathroom (huang nam – water room). Then we went to pay and some other customer had already paid for our food. That was fun. Yanthai seemed embarrassed.