So, my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker was telling me about her visit to the city that I used to live in.
Besides the sites, she did try the subway, once, and this very very strange (black) guy once stood very close behind her on the platform while she was waiting for the train, and she felt super uncomfortable and had to move away from him and keep a lookout for him, and so for the rest of her trip she took Uber everywhere.
I was also telling her about my trip, and how I had stopped through a couple of university towns on the way to my parents's and back to see some friends who lived in those places, and she told me that she had actually been thinking about going back to one of the towns that I had visited to visit an old professor of hers, since she had studied there five years ago on an exchange program back when she had been studying disease transmission stuff.
She also began reminiscing about her work in that area back in Thailand.
Like, she had worked as part of a project funded by France, and before the summer vacation, she had to work a ton since her (French) colleagues were in overdrive to get a ton of stuff done before they left for the last half of the summer, and then when they were leaving, her boss said not to email him at all, but also to come into the office everyday, since (Thai) culture expected that, and so she came in and did nothing all day, for the rest of the summer.
She also said that one time her boss took everyone out to this (French) restaurant in Bangkok, and it was super expensive and waiters had towels on their arms, and it was "soooooo good."
She also said that another time, they were working in the field, and her coworkers cooked a simple chicken dish, like chicken on crushed tomatoes.
"So was it good?", I was like.
"No," she was like.
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