Coming out of Copenhagen turned out to be a little more complicated than anticipated. The radarsystem was out of order in our plane and a sparepart had to be flown in from Hamburg. There goes the first 5 hours of delay. Then the plane from Hamburg forgot to bring the sparepart and the sparepart had to be driven in by Taxi….. There goes the next 7 hours of delay. Having waited in total for more than 15 hours in the airport (and even though Copenhagen Airport is a very nice airport there are are only so much to do for 15 hours and two meal vouchers!) we were happy to board the airplane at 2.30 AM and not the least arriving in Bangkok 10½ hours later.
The University, RMUTK, was kind enough to pick us up in the airport and drive us to the hotel which is located very conveniently only 20 minutes by foot and bus from the University. None of us have ever been to Bangkok before and the city with all its noise, skyscrapers, Tuk Tuks, street kitchens, people and more made a huge first impression which we are still digesting (maybe together with a little jetlag).
Monday morning we were picked up at the hotel by our contact Greg LaBarre and we arrived at the University for welcome ceremonies with the president and teaching staff and coffee at 9.00 AM. The University has put a lot of effort into preparing the course for us and we were very impressed with the reception we received. Besides the 10 students from Copenhagen North 13 students from RMUTK also attends the course and they also gave a warm welcome to us. The course then started with our students giving a presentation of Denmark
followed by presentations from the University, tour of the campus and a very nice lunch. Our students are very excited and are looking very much forward to the next 2 weeks of the course.
These are all of the participants in the course in front of the main entrance:
A bad start to a great experience
Keep up the good reporting.