Summer University 2007 has started.

Twenty-eight graduates and undergraduates from nine different European countries have arrived for three weeks of fun and study, all as part of their Asian Experience.

The programme was run for the first time in 2006, and this year the students, mostly business majors, will spend their first four days and nights on campus, four nights based at the Ambassador Hotel in Bangkok and then go to the Jomtien Grand Hotel for the remainder of their stay.

They will have lectures on business practices in Asia, and in particular in Thailand. They will have the chance to learn, and take part in, Thai massage and Thai boxing. The Asian U students will give them Thai language lessons, they will learn about Thai food and cooking, meditation and Thai culture. The Experience includes visits to four very different local companies and industries.

Of course they will also learn about and from one another.

On their first night, Monday 6 August, the visitors attended a welcome dinner, so they could meet with each other and some of the Asian U staff. A few of the undergraduate students had arranged an Asian U special Bi-Si welcome ceremony. This was an opportunity for the students from east and west to make friends with each other. The photos were taken by Katha, a second year Multi-media student.