Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Qu'est-ce?

I'm a bit lazy at translating these, so I did it today and not yesterday. Last night interned was not working anyways. But here you are, so enjoy.

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Camion pick-up mur d'escalade!

We have gotten all the way to Lyon with Ilona, Oksari and Hermanni. We had an early start since our plane left at 7.35am. We flew to Paris where we had a change. Interestingely enough we continued by train and not by plane. I kept joking that we're taking a flying trane. On the way back we're going through Paris too but this time by plane on both parts of the trip. 

Charles de Gaulle is an airport that I hate. The first time changing there I was forced to go through three aecurity checks. I was on my way back home from the US and really tired so when on the third check they made me take my camera out of the suit case I was already close to crying. This timw we didn't need to go through any security, but it took quite some time before we found the counter where we got our train tickets, since there were no clear instructions. There they were not too familiar with tecnology, since the lady behind the counter found our tickets from some envelope and then striked our names out of the name list on some paper. 

The train got at 2pm to Lyon and our check in was at three. So we had plenty of time to walk to our hotel. It was a 45 minute walk in a hot weather. After getting to our hotel room me and Ilona left quite quickly to the store to get some water and something salty. There are no big supermarkers nearby but there are a couple of small food stores. We also managed to make some pasta and tomato sauce with tuna. Or actually Ilona was the one making the food, so thanks you Ilona for feeding us.

In the evening we made our way towards the playing venue to register for the tournament and get our player badges. After that there was an opening ceremony which started with a Frech hymn. The French juniors were singing along it very nice and breezily even though it was a bit false. A couple of official speeches and a lovely French song performed by Chinese juniors later the president of World Bridge Federation announced the 5thWorld Youth Open Championships opened. After this the ceremony was pretty much done, because somebody came to say that there are twice as much people as the maximum allowance is for the auditorium and everyone should now calmly leave. It was indeed way too small, although it's probably good for vugraph theather. 

At the opening ceremony

These chanpionships are starting with pairs tournament that have started today and continue till Friday. Me and Ilona are playing in the girls series amongs 41 other pairs. Oskari and Hermanni are competig in the youngsters against 36 other pairs. In juniors there are 35 pairs and kids is clearly the biggest series with 78 pairs two thirds of which are from China.

Ilona is hiding behind the camera (:

Ilona has been quite anxious, she hasn't been before to championships like this nor played with screens. A couple of years ago I got quite nervous too but now I don't even remember what that feels like. After getting silver with Vesa from european junior mixed pairs championships last year and having to get the medal at the podium in the front while everyone was staring I don't get anxious over anything anymore. At least as much as back then. I might be wrong though (:

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Qu'est-ce?

I'm a bit lazy at translating these, so I did it today and not yesterday. Last night interned was not working anyways. But here you are...