Sun 23 Sep
Waking up early, we headed downstairs for a scrumptious breakfast in the hotel, followed by a 1 hour problem session, where we went through problems from the ACM regional, and the Belarus selection exams. By midday, we were on a trail from Milano Centrale towards Venice, but disembarking at Desenzano; the station closest to Garda Village (our place of stay for the duration of the IOI). We met our (awesome) guide Jake who is a native English speaker but has lived in Italy for most of his life.
Upon arrival at the Village, We were met with a large line of flags and IOI banners, we received an IOI bag of freebies containing an IOI hat, IOI shirts and Norton 360 (-_-) (and lunch), before playing bartog with the UK team (who actually say "bullocks") before a large dinner. Jake took us for a boat along Lake Garda (which is spectacular at night) to the Sirmione castle. Given a 20 euro voucher for the whole team (including himself) Jarrah instructed us that it was "our duty to our country" to "knapsack optimally", each spending 4 euros to get no less than 3 flavours of gelato. We found it really cool that the organisers went around the area and got local restaurants to stick up "IOI 2012" stickers saying they accept our vouchers.
Heading back to our rooms, we soon discovered that we did not have WiFi reception in our room. As a result, Goldy wandered outside, only to return and sit down on what he thought was our front porch (where he caught reception) for no less than 30 mins before seeing a bunch of curious Armenians peeping out of their window realising that it was their front porch.
Waking up early, we headed downstairs for a scrumptious breakfast in the hotel, followed by a 1 hour problem session, where we went through problems from the ACM regional, and the Belarus selection exams. By midday, we were on a trail from Milano Centrale towards Venice, but disembarking at Desenzano; the station closest to Garda Village (our place of stay for the duration of the IOI). We met our (awesome) guide Jake who is a native English speaker but has lived in Italy for most of his life.
Upon arrival at the Village, We were met with a large line of flags and IOI banners, we received an IOI bag of freebies containing an IOI hat, IOI shirts and Norton 360 (-_-) (and lunch), before playing bartog with the UK team (who actually say "bullocks") before a large dinner. Jake took us for a boat along Lake Garda (which is spectacular at night) to the Sirmione castle. Given a 20 euro voucher for the whole team (including himself) Jarrah instructed us that it was "our duty to our country" to "knapsack optimally", each spending 4 euros to get no less than 3 flavours of gelato. We found it really cool that the organisers went around the area and got local restaurants to stick up "IOI 2012" stickers saying they accept our vouchers.
Heading back to our rooms, we soon discovered that we did not have WiFi reception in our room. As a result, Goldy wandered outside, only to return and sit down on what he thought was our front porch (where he caught reception) for no less than 30 mins before seeing a bunch of curious Armenians peeping out of their window realising that it was their front porch.
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