day 1 v2

And so ends day 1, v2 of the 2010 IOI.

I traveled down yesterday since there is no possible way to get from Cobar to Sydney for a 2pm start. For me travelling consisted of a 3 hour bus ride to Dubbo, then a flight to Sydney, making for an 8 hour trip. The stop over in Dubbo was extremely useful for stocking up on supplies, like travel adaptors for such wonderful places as Canada. Also the taxi trip out to the airport was possibly the most optimal drive possible, by the end we were talking about time travel and special relativity.

Last night I had dinner with Jarrah, Bernard and his wife at quite an interesting chinese restaurant near UNSW. I have never seen so many melons in one fridge! We got there eventually after figuring out how to use the boot (we're informaticians, not drivers). Unfortunately I was under instructions to not get hospitalised or arrested.

This morning I had a wonderful breakfast at the cafe next to the hotel (since then I have been given breakfast vouchers). The bacon and egg roll had half a pig on it!

I met up with the rest of the IOI team at 2pm, from there we went to UNSW for a problem solving session. We solved a problem from the Egyptian IOI involving bridges, ferries and lots of walking, it boiled down in to a set of cactus/vortex graphs.