CIC7 Blog - Road to Enschede

Well, first of all I am writing this because I was a bit bored and secondly because I never want to forget these 5 days of my life. I know i'm 3 weeks late, but I didn't find the time, and there was so much stuff to write, i could have wrote a book about it.

Day 0 - The 4th of March 2010

It all started early in the morning, when I went in the Maltese Airport, it was around 10a.m, the flight to frankfurt was at noon, so I decided to go 2 hours before, when I went to check-in, they said my name was not there and i had to go to the Lufthansa reception (I showed them my itinerary proving that I booked the flights and hotel) and after an hour he see that I have to buy the freaking tickets again, I was like "ok...", and he told me luckily there was enough place left on the same plane I had booked, but the flights price changed, since I had booked it 1 month before, it was actually around 200€, and now it was 450€... 200€ already lost, awesome! But I wasn't ready to just dodge there cause of this, I wanted to go and I had no other intentions of not doing so.

Went on the plane, it was packed, not even 1 place remaining, and we arrived in Frankfurt Airport, which was so huge, considering the Maltese Airport is not even longer than 500metres... I arrived there at about 2:30 p.m and my other flight was at 8:55 pm, so i had 6 hours in the Airport to waste my time, first I stayed browsing the shops, went to other terminals, and got some frankfurters to eat, they were awesome! :P

After 5 hours of boredemness, the flight from Frankfurt to Munster was delayed by an hour, so great... so i started messaging eujen, to see where he is at (since he was going from Munster to Enschede by train) and he replied with "Lol wtf i m chilling at home wont come gl" and told him to gtfo :D he replied with "Ahahahaha<3 joke im on the way:) sitting im train :) to hesen then munster and enschede<3, you should be more worry about remy not me <3" along with "Omg here in train is looking 24/7 at me:)ahahaha" [he wanted to say that a girl was looking at him on the train 24/7, it was the first time he went out! xD] and atleast the time passed by and at 9:55 the plane took off and arrived at Munster, it was almost deserted, they were still painting it and doing other stuff and it smelt of paint and esters.

At around 10:30 i got a taxi and it took about 1 hour to arrive in enschede, lots of thoughts going through my mind, lan threats, people i have been waiting to meet, clanmates etc, it made me really tense thinking about all this stuff, and at midnight I arrived at Enschede, walking and trying to find where the Cinestar was, luckily there were 2 guys who just came from there and told me the way, it was so cold, -2 degrees, and considering I always lived on hot & sunny Malta, I didn't even have my gloves on me, i swear i couldn't feel or sense anything on my hand or face, it was almost frozen, i was so excited and finally I arrived infront of the LAN centre and I was like 20 metres away and i stopped eujen Ethr and remy(adeto), and as I approached them eujen shouted "come here Gary you homosekshuewl!"[inside joke, since eujen cannot pronounce homosexual :P we had finally found eachother, it was so amazing, words just can't describe it, the moment he hugged me, you could compare it to a romantic movie where two lovers get to meet after being held prison in years or something, you get the point.

I recall I had tears in my eyes, it was a very emotional moment to finally arrive at Enschede, destination from Malta was around +2000km, and together we entered inside the LAN centre and introduced myself to the CF Admin Crew, first I met the mighty TosspoT, and Cash, both had that surprised face, and the latter said, "you got some balls to come all the way from Malta I didn't expect this, nice to meet you!" along with "does anybody know what you look like? do you wanna stay incognito? :P" and met the mighty Krosan (who killed ET and Quakelive during the event), we met the YCN Crew, i cannot remember who was who though, I think Marcus and EYJohn(?) and finally your ETQW favourite Seanza along with Plekter with his CIC7 Beer! We went to the WZZRD Bar inside the WZZRD LAN Centre and there was TosspoT trying to solve an argument of two CoD4 Teams, which if i understood correctly were fighting for the same Hotel Room and after 30 minutes it finally ended, so we finally got our Logica hotel keys, and went in Krosan's BMW, we were almost squashed and somehow Plekter survived in the backseat with Krosan's 2 monster PC cases.

We spent about 30 minutes searching for the Logica Centre with no avail, we stopped at the Twente University and there was a map of Twente, we found out the map we had was some years old and the roads had changed... and finally we arrived in the hotel and put all our stuff, and out of nowhere we met Starzi, who instantly offered us some weed! <3 :D and with him there was R0SS, toxic and wiaderko, we met eachother and asked where Twidi was, and Starzi whispered, "twidi shit himself... twice. Oh! I shouldn't have said that!" and the YYT guys showed us where he was, sleeping in the bed, which was 2 metres away from ours, i think there was an awefull smell xD it was around 3a.m so we needed some sleep, because we had to wake up at 8(or before) to be at the LAN center, an epic moment iirc was when we heared somebody knocking on YYT's hotel room, saying "come on guys, open up, COME ON, OPEN UP, it's me!" i believe it was wiaderko's voice.

What a day this was for me, so many memories, so many flashbacks, so many thoughts i will never forget, so many things i wil remember for the rest of my life.

Stay tuned for Day 1, which i will probably write tomorrow.