Sunday, August 31

So finally I have some time and energy to update you all on what's going on here.







I got the cheque last time on the amount of 34.000 thai baht, about 1000usd. This was the amount I have to pay as a deposit for the school. But like I said the school was closed by the time I finally got the cheque so I had to wait until the next day, which was Friday.



After sleeping in until almost noon, I got up and went to the Hua Mak campus (http://www.au.edu/), the one in the city. When I got there everyone was on lunch naturally and I had to wait outside in the heat, thai rules are that if you visit any school or government building you have to wear real shoes and long pants so I was sweating my ass off. Strange rules to have in a country where it never gets below 25.



Finally they came back from lunch and I paid the money and they said, come back monday at 4pm and you'll get the acceptance letter and all other papers you might need. And that's all, so I left again, 2 minutes later, with no more info than that, and as I came to think of later I hadn't even gotten a receipt that they received the money.. I don't think that'll be a problem, but it would've been nice to be sure about it.



Summa summarum, I'll write more about it tomorrow or the next day when i know more. Now my plan is to go to Koh Samui in the south as soon as all this is settled and relax for about a week, then I'm going with some friends to Ampawa, a nice little village a couple of hours south of Bangkok and I think the 17th I'm flying to Macau and there I will take the ferry and visit friends in Hong Kong.







This weekend I spent first going with friends to watch a movie, The Deaths of Ian Stone, terrible movie, don't see it. Then friday night I went out with my Japanese friend Taka, we went to a couple of different clubs and I came back 7 or 8 am after a crazy night, as they often are in this city. Yesterday I was pretty much dead so just play pool, watch another movie "The Mist" (pretty good) and sleep.







Tomorrow I'll start looking for apartement near the Hua Mak campus, accually I just remembered that that was the reason I went to an internet cafe now in the first place.. I have some pictures, not any fun ones though, but enjoy!

Pic1. Me tired, just arrived and with my first bucket
pic2. After the bucket, less tired
pic3. Me and the cool boyz
pic4. ??
pic5. Me and Alisa, my friend at Abac
pic6. Olga!

Video. Risking my life on the motorcycle taxi. This guy drove carefully, not very common.

First week

Forsta veckan avklarad. Mycket har hant gifvetvis, fick idag reda pa att jag kommit in pa skolan efter extremt mycket om och men sa att saga.

Sa varfor inte ta det hela fran borjan. Tyvarr ar klockan sent nu sa jag orkar inte sitta och ladda upp massa bilder, men kanske har tid for det imorn.

Kom hit i torsdags pa eftermiddagen. Akte direkt till Kao san road for att hanga med mina vanner som jobbar dar omkring och for att det ar billigast att bo dar. Checka in pa halvlyxiga D&D in for hela 100kr/natten, lyxigt varre. pa lordagen var jag ute med min fore detta Pui och hennes vanner och nar de akt hem fortsatte jag natten pa klassiska "Spicy", dock inte sa kul nar man ar ensam sa kvallen avslutades i fin stil med nagra cheese-bitekorvar fran 7/11.

Sondagen fick bli lugn med film pa rummet for att jag skulle upp tidigt i mandags for att for forsta gangen besoka universitetet jag har sokt in till.
Efter ca. 1 timme i taxi och 80kr fattigare var jag framme vid 11 tiden pa ABAC (www.au.edu) university, campus Bangna. Har motte jag upp med en van jag haft internetkontakt med som visade mig runt och jag fick sitta med pa hennes franskalektion. Skolan ar riktigt sjukt stor och blaffig. Ligger mitt ute i ingenstans och paminner om typ highskolan fran Beverly Hills. Hur som helst borjade jag mitt sokande till skolan da.
Problem 1 var att jag inte hade ett diplom fran gymnasiet, bara betyg. Vi far ju itne diplom i Sverige. Efter snack med Vice Presidenten for internationella studenter sa loste det sig och dagen efter ringde de och sa att allt var lost.

Problem 2 blev da igar att jag akte till andra campuset i stan, dar hade dom ingen aning om vad de sagt dagen innan och nu var det storsta problemet inte langre diplomet utan att jag ar 23, de prioriterar 18 och 19aringar..
Detta problem loste sig snabbt da jag ringde till folket jag snackat med dag1 och de idiotforklarade personen jag snackat med precis.
Nu skulle jag istallet fa tid for intervju for att fa komma in. Jaja detta blev manga nya problem.
Hur som helst, idag far jag forst ett sms sen ett telefonsamtal om att jag har blivit accepterad och att jag ska dit och betala depositum pa 1000usd. ok? Vad hande med matteprovet? Vad hande med intervjun? Vem vet, T.I.T, This is Thailand..
Sa problem 45 ungefar, de tar inte kreditkort. Bara check.. Sa forsta banken jag gar till sager nej, kontakta ICAbanken i Sverige for att fa ut en check... Nasta bank stanger for klcokan ar halv 4. Tredje banken sager nej. Fjarde banken sager JA! Men jag maste betala banken kontant. Efter 4 max uttag fran ATM och en bunte sedlar pa 5cm far jag antligen min check idag, men da hade skolan redan stangt, sa det blir morgondagens projekt.

Skriver mer nasta gang, imorgon kanske, nu har jag bara 5minuter kvar och de har slut pa mynt har till maskinen sa jag far ge upp. God kvall! Saknar er alla!

Forsta inlagget.

Mina vanner, valkomna till en ny generation enkelbangkok. Erik,varsagod att borja kommentera.