Third week in Thailand

Now that I've been here a little more than 3 weeks doing pretty much nothing at all, I really can't wait to start school. My money is just running off of me, even though I try to keep the spending down. It costs surprisingly much to do nothing.

Since last week alot has happened though in my slow life here. Last Thursday I finally got my letter of acceptance from ABAC University. It wasn't exactly what I hoped for though because it was only enough papers to get my long-stay Visa, not the papers with the amount of hours per week and study plan that I need to get money from CSN back home. Now the next big expense will be to go to Kuala Lumpur probably and visit the thai embassy there to get the Visa, since they apparently stopped giving out long stay visas in Thailand, I have to go abroad. Atleast I don't have to go back to Sweden, which is what they told me at first.

Anyway friday I left with a Canadian girl and an American guy, that I met here on Kao San Road, to Koh Samui, an island off the east coast of Thailand, about 10hours south of Bangkok by bus. We stayed at Lamai Beach, a pretty sweet spot on the island, quiet and cheap enough. Samui is the most exploited and most heavily populated island that I've been on in Thailand. Because of this it also became my least favourite one, still nice though with alot of quiet beaches and jungle treks. Maybe more for the richer and the older, or for the younger and more party-hungry (Chaweng Beach, crazy parties every night).
We had a good time on the beach, in the bars and at the parties and we had really good seafood, best so far in Thailand I think. I already miss my travel companions, nice people do come out of north america! :)

Unfortunately the weather wasn't the best so I guess that also helped not to make Samui a favourite. We had some rain and alot of winds, almost storms sometimes but this made it nice and cool at night.
Yesterday I got on the boat back to the mainland again, it took about 4-4.5h to get there, but now to get back it took 8 hours on a small boat, like the ones that used to go Malmo - Kopenhamn, but about half the size. The waves were 6-7m high and we were flying over them, sometimes it reallt felt like we were gonna flip over and I had to keep my eyes closed and concentrate really hard not to get sick. I heard people all around me throwing up in the white ziplock bags that were handed out, but somehow I managed to keep it in. So 8h after we took off we finally came to the mainland and after another 8h on the bus I was back in Bangkok, sweet Bangkok. No boats here.
Tonight I'm going to see a movie and tomorrow early I'm going to Ampawa.
I didn't take many photos on Samui, but I'll get the ones I have up here sooner or later.