Day 3 + 4 in France

Day 2
A 3 bedroom apartment with one bathroom. Khalid and his roommate have one room. Myself, Marn, NKI have another room, and John Choi, Laugh(Korea), Buktooth, and Bas in the other room. Obviously we are Gamers, so everyone would knows what that means after a long night of cracking on SF4. Waking up late... So we finally leave the house around maybe 4:30pm. We took the train to Paris and we ate at this chain restuarant which is similar to an applebee's or denny's back in the states, but this time, it was called Hippotamous. Everyone had their own type of generic dish, including myself. I had Steak (Medium Well) with mash potatoes. It was made "French" style and it was pretty damn good.

After that, we walked around and we went to tourist exhibit #1: Champs et Lysée and the Arc de Triomphe (Arc of Triumph) It was a nice monument, but the only thing I cared for when it came down to "tourist" stuff is to go to the top of the eiffel tower. The Arc, you can go upstairs, which was defintely not for me, so myself and Marn just waited for them to go up and come down. After 45 minutes, they finally came down and they were all in pain because they had to walk all the way to the top. GGPO.... Everyone is now tired and Paris is closing now, so we head back to Les Baccoonet to get some late food and called it a night. Had another greek/halal sandwich. I had beef this time on a pita with some salad. It was pretty yummy. We also ended up falling asleep around 5am... Will Day 3 be another repeat of Day 2??!?!??!

Day 3
What happen on day 3? We went to the loo. Its a museum where the famous Mona Lisa painting was held at. What time did we leave though? Around 5-6 pm... Typical gamer time. When we got there, it was closed, but they let us in just downstairs, which didn't have anything. We couldn't go see anything else though. So we ate typical greek/halal food and went back to the house and just played games for the night.


Day 4
We left from Paris to go to the tournament place which is located in Renne. Renne's a 3 hr drive from Paris. So the French players rented a car for us foreigners to take us to Stunfest 2009. I basically slept the whole way through. I woke up at one of the pitstops so we can get some food. There was heavy traffic on the way going there though. Supposedly, it was a national holiday going on. So I had some pulled pork with some pasta. It was actually pretty good, and I finished it with a cheesecake. I got hit by the food coma and fell asleep.

I woke up and we finally arrive to the venue. It took us 7 hrs to get there. I didn't even know because I was sleeping the whole way through. We met with the organizers and the person we are staying with in Renne. His name's Arnold. As we were going inside the venue, it basically was held in a parking lot. That's a first for me actually. Going to a tournament in a big parking lot. It was a nice venue actually. It got a little cold later at night, but since there was so many people there, the gamer's body heat kept us all warm. So everyone was just setting up the games, the arcade cabinets, the tvs and everything else. It was great to see how lively everyone is to make this a very good Stunfest. We left with Arnold to go back to his house. He was so nice to us. He got us all towels, got ready the bed for us, and he was just very hospitable. All of us went to sleep to get ready for the big day tomorrow...

International Tournament Stunfest pt.1

Day 1. May4th - May 5th


The flight was alright. I didn't get alot of sleep, but the food was good and I got the chance to see "Yes Man" and "Slumdog Millionaire (Great Movie BTW A MUST SEE!!!)". Once we finally landed, Campbell (Buktooth) was waiting for us to arrive at the arrival gate. We thought we had the red carpet for us foreign players but it didn't happen. The driver had a mishap with work and couldn't pick us up at the airport. We had to take the Blue line to a stop called Les Bacconnet. I thought this would be pretty easy, but I was wrong. I'm from NYC and this must've been the most difficult thing ever. Their ticketing machines were like "not in order" and the machines only accepted coins. Why wouldn't you accept bills? I never heard of such BULLSHIT. LOLz. So after going through 3 broken machines, we finally found a working one and when we got to the track, some Nigerian kid was like "this is the train to Paris". So obviously as tourists, we took the kid's word. It turns out that he was demanding money from us because he "helped" us. It was fine at first because he was asking us for like .50 euros which was $1 USD at the time, but then it went to a demand of 1 Euro and then ended up to a demand of 5 euros. I'm like "I may not be around here, but I am def ain't fucking stupid. So later on, we got off the wrong stop. It was a nice stop, it looked all nice and everything was so pretty. But it was the wrong stop.... LOLz. How did we get off the wrong stop? Well when we talked to our host, he pronounce the stop in a way that sounded similar as Les Bacconnet. We got off at Les Halles.

So when we got back in the station we had to buy brand new tickets. When I put my ticket in the turnstyle, these 2 random french ghetto girls pushed me in and hopped the turnstyle with me. I am like WTFOMG?!?!?! People don't even do that in NYC. I brushed it off and we finally got back to our long journey and FINALLY comes our stop. The train stops.... We wait for the door to open, but it doesn't open. It then leaves... I then realized, you gotta push a button to open the train doors. Where in the world do you have to press a little round button to open train doors? So we got off the next stop and transfer to the other side. Our train comes, but it doesn't stop. Lolz it was an express train... SIGHHHHH... Waited another 10 more minutes and the train finally arrives and we get on and finally make it to the right station.

As we were leaving the station, you have to put your ticket that you bought from the orginal destination to leave when you arrive at the destination you are trying to get to. Unfortunately, Marn lost his ticket so he had to hop the turnstyle to leave the station... He didn't get caught which meant, its pretty easy to get away with not paying for the train. We finally reached the guy whom we are staying with, Khalid. We put our stuff in his apartment and got some grub. It was yummy actually. It wasn't french food, it was more of a greek/halal type of thing. I had a pita sandwich with curry chicken and patika chicken. It came with alot of fries. For 7 euros which is equivalent to 12 USD I guess. So it was pretty overpriced for a fastfood thingamig. We got back to the house, and I passed out and woke up 5 hrs later. My day was practically over, I was just playing Street Fighter 4 for the remaining night.

Finally found the reason why our day was bad..... Rumor has it, that Buktooth carries this curse of badluck. John Choi was explaining it to me, calling it the campbell curse. It sounds pretty true, but we will see what happens when I talk about the remaining of my France trip

TO BE CONTINUED....