The last 10 days have been quite eventful. It started with a Tuesday morning when Sairozi was driving me to my Thai language class. However when we entered the university the street was blocked by a huge snake (around 2 meters long and 15 centimeters thick!) and a security guard tried to catch it with a black plastic bag. The snake then quickly crossed the street so I was only a couple of minutes late for my class.
The following events at the university were luckily not as frightening as the snake. From Wednesday until Friday we had research week. However, most Finnish students used the time to conduct some beach research in Bali. Since Sairozi and I were staying in Phuket we decided to attend some of the discussions, workshops and presentations offered by the university. The Thai cooking workshop we joined was lots of fun for everyone (except for me cause I was feeling a bit sick that day, but the food was super delicious). They also offered a cocktail mixing workshop that we missed, because we went to another presetation. We also met some other interntional students who are studying full time at the Prince of Songkla university.
On Friday we didn't go to the research week, because Sairozi needed to extent his 60 days tourist visa. Equipped with a his passport, a photocopy (you can make photocopies there for 2 Baht/copy) of the front page as well as a copy of the page with the visa/entrance stamp, a photo and 1900 Baht (ca. 50 Euros) we went to the immigration office in Phuket town. If I remember correctly the opening hours were Monday-Friday 8.30-12.00 and 13.00-16.30. After filling out the application form it took us less than 10 minutes to get the visa extension for another 30 days and the staff and volunteers there were very friendly.
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