T-134 hours

Waking up at 6:50 in the morning, I reset my alarm which was set to 7:00 for some strange and unknown reason, and went to sleep for 2 more hours. All in all, that was a great start to an intense training week.

After packing up, travel to Randwick and checking in at Perouse Lodge with 40 minutes to spare, I checked if there are any reasonable wireless networks around (naturally). Luckily, the one provided by the hotel is enough to check my emails and access the training site.

First session of pre-IOI training threw me straight back into the problem-solving mindset. We spent a couple of hours solving a past IOI problem, Islands, and waiting for Kenneth to turn up (2 hours late, again). We then headed off to the labs to code up our solutions, and no one got anywhere close to getting full marks on the problem.

We topped off our day with a trip to a Turkish restaurant and a good friendly game of xscorch, accompanied by the duet performance of Les Mis by Kenneth and my laptop.