Wednesday 5 March 2008

Finished 1st part of project / Upcoming Travel Notice

It costed me a lot of time and sweaty hard work: cutting and assembling the two loudspeakers, which are actually the 1st part of my project here in Thailand. Today I finished work with the speakers and tested them. They actually sound very nice, but what is even nicer is that I can see the product of 3 weeks of hard work now. And they make sound, that's so great!!! :-)
You can see the plan for the speaker here. Soon I will show you one picture with the finished product.
At work

Furthermore I just wanted to inform you that on Friday I will leave Chiang-Mai for a 1 1/2 weeks travel. No, my internship is not over yet, but since people at the university are quite relaxed about the amount of work an international student has to do and want me more to get to know Thai culture, way of life and language, I was allowed to take 1 1/2 weeks of from work.
I will go to Bangkok (we all know it's the capital of Thailand), a crazy metropolis with even more crazy traffic and air pollution, but also very vivid and fancy. After that I will visit Ayuttaya, a very old temple site from a few centuries ago, when it is the old capital and king's town of Siam (Thailand was formerly known as "Siam"). Then we will go to visit a site that is famous for it's floating markets, which means people sell food and all kinds of other stuff on boats on the water. You might feel reminded to the James Bond movie "The man with the golden gun", where wild pursuits were taking place on the waterways. After that we head to "Ko Chan", which is also called the "Elephant island", thanks to it's shape. There we will stay for relaxing at the beautiful Thai beaches, soaking up the sun, swim at some waterfalls, do scubadiving and just enjoy our freetime. I will have company from Ayush, Tew (who will be our very experienced travel guide), Tip, Michael and Tan.
I am really looking forward to that since I cannot wait to see a bit of the rest of Thailand. Having stayed now about 1 month in Chiang-Mai has been very interesting, but I feel like getting away now for a certain period of time.
So I hope you liked my pictures and still keep reading eagerly what I have to say. :-)

Monday 3 March 2008

A mass of new images uploaded

Today I uploaded a huge number of new pictures from the last 3 weeks. There was a lot of stuff going on, so check it out.
at work, party, temples, people, elephant camp, power plant visit