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Attention, pretty long post! :)

What to say, I came back from France 5th march with semi-success.. We finished second behind TeG and won 750 + some pads and stuff. But I'm more than pleased. I met a lot of people who I've know over the internet for some time now! Some of them I know for 3 years now. It's almost as we've been through high school together! Besides the Frenchies I've also met SGC and TeG.

So, I've arrived at Paris airport (CDG) 23rd of February, on the airport jorge and his mothers friend waited for me, it was kinda odd when we shaked hands, even thought we both know each other for some time over the internet, and we've became very good friends, we didn't know if a hand-shake was really enough, but we eventually only shaked hands.

Even though I arrived, I knew it was pretty hard to get all the bagagge to his apartment, since I carried stuff for 12 days to wear, my whole PC, even my monitor and some gifts for jorge and his family.

When we arrived in front of the building where his apartment is, jorges mother and their little adopted son (who's Russian btw - he's very cool and pretty much restless :D - i mean he can run whole day without breaking a sweat) were waiting for us. When we finally got all the baggages to his apartment I realized that I forgot to brink my PC power cable, so we went to the nearby store Sarcouff. Which is pretty enormous by the way. I mean if you need some device which needs electricity - there's no way you can't find it there. I finally found what I needed and we hit back home.

The second we started playing dota I saw how much better internet and how much GGC works better in France compared to Serbia. After a few dota's it was time to hit the Paris metro to go to Parc des Princes (Princes' Park). Where we went to watch a football match of French Ligue 1 between PSG and Monaco. It was, to be honest, not a too good match, but I guess I was more than happy to see a different cheering culture, and I'm a big football fan. Besides that I saw "Kosovo is Serbia" flag on the stadium as well. It was pretty cold, during and after the match, I'll tell you that. When we hit back home, even though I had a jacket the rain and the wind were pretty nasty...

We finally arrived back home (it takes 45 minutes by metro and walk) and we hit back to sleep immediately. In the morning we had a typical French breakfast, bread + butter + jam, but with something I brought from Serbia, which is already eaten to be honest, as jorge said they loved it. It's called Ajvar and it's made 90% of paprika, and I'm not gonna give away the recipe, heh. I showed them the rest of my presents, I bought jorge a Serbian national football team jersey, and I gave him my Serbian flag (which is quite big). To his little bro I gave a world globe which levitates between two magnetic fields, it's quite awesome if you ask me, didn't come quite cheap as well too, and Crazy Frog dummy, I guess I really didn't know what were his interests. I also brought Belgrade guidebook on French and Serbian national drink Rakija (tastes similar like brandy). So when we finished breakfasting, I found out how bad my French is, lol. Basically I understood every 2nd word they were saying at best, even though I tried my best I ended up mostly talking English, even thought I wanted to improve my French. And I missed the bit when they said we were going to visit the Chateau de Versailles.

First we went to the apartment of the same guy who helped me transport all my baggage, where we had a nice lunch, pizza, French wine and Caribbean rum. Even though I found the rum pretty tasty I was more impressed by his apartment, throughout the whole length it had a terrace which was totally transparent, glass windows only, and I loved his poker machine, I can't really tell you more about it, besides the fact that I would probably lose my house to it..

Anyways, when we were done with the lunch we headed to Versailles. When we arrived, there were so many buses parked on the parking lot, I felt like we're not getting inside that day, and when we saw the queue for the chateau we just skipped it and went for a little walk through the garden, where we took some pictures and it was really relaxing in a fun way.. We roamed a little, and that's when I got to know Alexei a little better. :D He COULDN'T stop running, I couldn't believe a kid can have so much strength! At least we knew that he's gonna sleep well for sure that night! :)

When we hit back home, got into a car there was a little group of girls crossing the street and they were to be honest walking pretty slowly, and while jorge's mom was on the wheel, her friend hunk the horn once and turned his look away to the other side, lol.

Afterwards we hit back home and had a dinner and after 1 game of dota we went to meat up with Amyga to play some billiard. I usually play billiard on PC, not that much in real life, and amyga first won me and jorge 2v1, and then I won them 2v1 as well, was pretty fun, and to be honest we all sucked. :D We went to a nearby caffe for a drink, there's a picture in my gallery as well and we hit back home.

When we came back I realized I had a temperature, which sucked hard, since I haven't had a temperature for 5 years now. So I took some aspirins and went to bed hoping I would get healthy in the morning, which didn't happen, so the next day I pretty much spent healing up and playing dota with jorge.

When, the next day, I finally got a little better so we went to see the French national library. I had to make an essay about the library so I used this unique opportunity to take a few pictures and so we did. After that as far as I remember we went back and I went back to bed early (around 11) to get finally healthy!

And so I did, we both woke up pretty late, around 13, so our day was practically ruined and we couldn't visit anything, and it was raining so we decided we should stay at home and play some French VIP dota, later that day we arranged to meet up with Amyga to go to an Thai/Viet restaurant, and I looked forward to it, since I've never tried such food, so after a nice dinner and a nice talk with the guys me and jorge went to a cafe and I tried a Mexican beer desperados, which is pretty strong and tasty, and we head back home, played a little dota, and went back to bed.

The next day we promised that we're gonna wake up a little earlier to go a little around Paris, and after a breakfast, we did. First we went towards Louvre and on the way we stopped buy a place where jorge worked for a couple of weeks and where I met a Serbian woman that works there for quite a while, and we had a really nice chat, and we kept going to Louvre where I took a lot of pictures, I love Louvre (I was there in 2005 - but I ran out of film, lol) and people say you need at least 3 weeks to see the whole Louvre. We went to Napoleons Chambres which is quite impressive. We also went to see La Djoconda (the painting otherwise known as Mona Lisa), and after went to the the best known boulevard in the world Champs Elysees. We stopped by the Paris St. Germain shop where I shopped some stuff for my friends 'n' family and went to a big shopping center where jorge looked for a jacket and we rounded the whole day by going to the Eiffel Tower. Heh, an awesome day, gotta admit.

To be honest I don't know which day am I talking about now, my memory is quite dazzled. As far as I remember the next day we slept a little late and mostly played dota, and went to see a cybercafe and a cafe he usually goes out to where we rank some cocktails (I drank mai-thai - which I usually drink) and the place was really cool, ambiance and everything, I wouldn't mind going out there every week, too bad I didn't get the chance to visit it during the weekends/friday.

We head back home, thinking about how tomorrow is the D-Day, jorge and his family are going to the Alpes and I have to move to kiram's apartment for 1 day and after we go to miage lan which is the main reason I came to France.

We spent the day doing mostly nothing, going to grab something to eat, but mostly just hanging out and making plans about how we gonna travel to Orleans.

We went by metro to meet up with Xplo and his little Peugeot 107, lol. We barely got into it with all our bags and went to Orleans. On the way there we had a bad GPS that fucked us up and made us made a wrong detour so we lost like 20 mins fixing that, lol.

When we finally arrived I didn't know who to meet first, too many hands to shake to be honest. When we finally set up, 2 minutes didn't pass and we had to play a match already, and we finished the groups 4-0 pretty easily. Later we won the first round of winner brackets and in the second round we lost to TeG to play against Soycd mix team in the looser brackets, one of their players dropped even though we had a big advantage over them but we still agreed to play a remake of the game in the morning. Later that night we went to a hotel, after watching SGC loosing in looser brackets vs rwar/krabe mix, and they, sadly, had to leave France little earlier than expected...

In the morning (arround 8), very exhausted, we had to go to play our match vs soycd's mix team. Somehow all 5 + maryblue managed to get into the poor citroen and we head back to the university (where the LAN was played). We won our game vs soy mix and had to play the game vs krabe/rwar mix asap. The match lasted 112 minutes, somehow winning it after many buybacks etc..

In looser finals we played vs wL (who was there pretty unexpected, after beating SGC and soycd mix team). We played really good in that match, not making a lot of mistakes, and it was very smooth. The match was streamed in a big theater.

Finals, what to say, judge it yourselves, but imo the fact that we didn't train before the lan and managed to get a second place was more than enough for me. That and the fact that I met a lot of the guys I know for many years.

After that we went back to kiram's house, basically we didn't do much until I went back to Serbia, he helped me a lot with the baggages when we went to CDG by train, couldn't have made without him.

BIG thanks to Jorge, his family for letting me stay at their place, Kiram for helping me a lot with the baggages and letting me stay at his place, to serious-gaming organization for sponsoring us and to the rest of the players from srs: i)arka, jester and fatal for having mass fun! :D

Cheers, Mare out.

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(7 months ago) #1 VF\|IceDagger

Very good read. I've always wanted to go to France, since my parents wouldn't pay for my school french trip. Sounds like a great event.

(7 months ago) #2 srsSilentCat

Thanks, you should visit it, there's never a dull moment there trust me. Especially if you visit with some of your best friends.

(7 months ago) #3 sSerenity

nice :) gg france :) Don't worry ! Be happy !

(7 months ago) #4 FR)jorgE-

only truth ! i will write this kind of essay after my summer serbian tour 2k8!

(6 months ago) #5 NLRotterdaM

great read, nice that you so much fun and you seem like such a cute boy, bringing some presents and stuff, i think i fell in love.

(6 months ago) #6 myMYM\|vhallee

im sorry i couldnt come there :/ it seems a nice event. I'll be nicer when you're smarter.

(6 months ago) #7 Margeta

Altough you tell us you don't speak very well french, your english is really pleasant to read ! GG for this essay and I hope you'll come back soon in our lovely city to enjoy some of her places :)

(6 months ago) #8 DNRandoyX

very nice read. something honest and heart felt article for a gamer. lols... nice nice. hope we can have major events like Miage here in Asia too. A world w/o walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

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