Thank goodness there are always people in a group who are willing to take on the temporary duty of a Social Committee. Lautaro Spotorno did it for us at the end of Week 1 and came up with a great program for the one long weekend we have here (Chulalongkorn Day).
On Friday evening, it seemed that all 11 of us were ready for some serious downtime after having dealt with jet lag, a new physical environment in every sense, many new contacts, conversations, and activities, uncertainty around the scope of our jobs and our skills , different food, first tensions with other people, and much more.