OMG Day Zero

Today was an adventure.

We woke to discover that due to Jewish laws, Shalom college does not serve breakfast on Saturdays, so at 8:30 we were driven by taxi to the airport hungry. We planned to eat breakfast at the airport, but upon arrival we discovered that our plane was leaving about half an hour earlier than we were expecting. This meant we had about five minutes to order and eat breakfast. It was during this five minutes that we realised how much of a misnomer 'fast food' is. Thankfully, due to the amazing power of airport inefficiency, our plane had not left by the time we arrived at the gate.

After our arrival in Brisbane, we rode a bus to the University of Queensland. When we got to our destination, we met our guide, Brooke. She seems like a well informed and helpful guide, which can only be a good thing. Brooke took us to our college and showed us our rooms, which are pretty standard college rooms. It was at this point that my phone notified me that Draftable, a Melbourne-based software company who I did an internship with over last summer holidays, wrote a wonderful blog post wishing me luck.

After this, Brooke took us on a tour around the campus, and showed us the competition hall, where we found Evgeny, a past Australian IOI medallist. Brooke then had to go to a mysterious guide meeting, and we made our way back to the college. On our walk a bus drove past, where we caught a glimpse of Tony Sun, a kiwi IOI contestant. This of course, meant that we had to give chase to the bus, so we could greet the kiwi team.

We had dinner. Standard college fair. Then some of us made a trip to the IGA to get some junk food. Then we bonded with other teams. (Specifically the NZ and UK teams). Badly paced story is badly paced.