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Sustainable Agriculture
	A vist to the Foundation for Education and Development of Rural Areas (FEDRA), working with villages in their fields. FEDRA does community development, women's education and training and other activities. The first village visit, students spent the day working with families in vairous activities.
	An overnight visit to Baan Don Jiang (Don Jiang Village) with a group of villagers starting an agroecology program (sustainable integrated organic farming) with the Thai NGO NorthNet. A new village working with NorthNet, a network of community development projects throughout Northern Thailand. Students worked in the fields and helped to build a seedling nursery.
	A visit to the Upland Holistic Development Project's demostration farm and research center. UHDP workes on developing sustainable agroforestry systems (farming in the forest) for tribal villages with limited land. Students also traveled to a remote Lahu village (a hill tribe) where they spent the night, hiked through fields and the jungle, learning about rattan and other important forest products.
	An extended field visit (one week) with villagers from Mae Taa. NorthNet helped facilitate transitioning from chemical intensive contract farming of baby-corn to a sustainable agroecological farming system. Students worked in the fields for the week (including one day together), and then traveled with their host families to sell produce in the market.
Global and Urban Issues
	Working at the Ruam Mit Bakery. Ruam Mit does vocational training and life-skills development for recovering drug addicts and street kids. An income generating project, Ruam Mit sells baked goods in Chiang Mai. Students helped bake, pick herbs for bread, and package items for sale.
	A day at the New Life Center. The NLC works with young tribal women at risk for entering the sex industry or other exploitative working situations. The support non-formal education, vocational training, and other activities, while living and working together in a large house. The NLC also does crisis care for young women who have been abused on in brothels.
	McKean Rehabilitation Institute: Formerly a leprosy colony, McKean has transitioned to a community based rehabilitation hospital, doing vocational training, farming and other life-skills education for people with disabilities.
	A week-long trip by train to Bangkok--a bustling chaotic "mega-city"--where students visited a number of programs, including: The Duang Prateep Foundation, working in the slums; an international symposium on sustainable cities; Empower and Rehab Ministries, two NGOs working with women in the sex industry; travel by various forms of urban transportation; Greenpeace Southeast Asia; and the Center for the Protection of Child Rights.
Environment and Natural Resources
	The Chiang Mai Development Farm supports villagers doing aquaculture (fish farming) throughout the North. Students helped collect eggs from talapia (a mouth-brooding fish), learned about fry production and finished with a Northern-style mean of steamed, fried and roasted fish.
	A visit to the Lamphun Industrial Estate, a collection of factories near Chiang Mai. In addition to briefings from the LIE offices and a visit to a factory, students met with factory workers involved with the Union for Civil Liberties, an NGO working on workers rights and legal protection.
	An overnight field visit to a Lahu tribal village producing shade grown coffee. Students learned about the project in Chiang Mai, including a visit to Lanna Cafe, an NGO selling fair-trade coffee internationally, before heading up to the village to pick coffee with the villagers.
	A week long trip studying Community Based Sustainable Tourism, a project affiliated with the NorthNet Foundation. Living and working with Karen tribal villagers, students worked in the fields, hiked through the mountains to the hightest point in Mae Hong Son province, backpacked to a remote village, and then finished with a seven hour backpack out though giant hornbill habitat, through the forest and fording the river 12 times.

	Orientation and reception at the Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University.
	A welcome game with the Thai student counterparts (pi lieng) at CMU, including a trust walk, tasting unknown foods and a bucket of eels.
	A retreat and camp with Thai student counterparts--group games, cooking together and other activities.
	Moving into the dorms and getting ready for the first village stay.
	A fun afternoon with Thai and American students rock climbing at The Peak, a 15 meter climbing wall in Chiang Mai.
	Celebrating Loy Kratong--the festival of lights--with Thai students. Making "kratongs" to float in the river and releasing "khom loi"--tissue paper hot air ballons.
	Watching falling stars from Doi Suthep mountain.
	In class and around campus.