The Gathering 2007

Yeah.. So It’s about time I got to post how TG was!

Day One
As said, I got up early today to go to TG. When I arrived and entered the ship, it was fantastic! A feeling I have never felt before. I onlined my computer and got on meeting other people. There were seminars with among others HÃ¥kon Wium Lie from Opera about OLPC foundation and Kripos. At 21:00 they shut off the lights and a beautiful sight of 5000+ monitors lightning up the place became visible! A really beautiful sight! The openingshow was lound and fun with introduction and entertainment. A day full of excitement. Almost too much for one day.

Day Two
After a cold night not sleeping too well, I woke up and got ready for the adventures for day two. Today I saw a seminar with The PirateBay and EFN. Today I also saw a seminar with NTNU, the university I’m thinking of attending to. It was all fun. Today was the deadline for the GameDev compo, and I didn’t know so I missed it. But I will make it next year! The day went by with meeting new people, exploring the ship, small shows on the main stage etc. There was a Guitar Hero for 360 today aswell. Just for qualification. This night I slept on my keyboard.

Day Three
I woke up quite good, but with only 2-3 hours of sleep. Just like yesterday. Still sleepy I ate my breakfast. Today there was a nerdswim, but I didn’t go. I mingled along with others as usual and played a little multiplayer games with others. Today I saw a seminar with IBM, PS3 and Linux. All three in one seminar! The Themes and Freestyle graphics compos had their deadline today. I got rejected D: But I’ll try again next year I suppose. I entered another compo for building a shop at SpredShirt which by the way had a stand there. And that’s how Ern’s GamerZone Shop was born. It’s real! And the only profit I have on the products are 10 Eurocent which I will give to charity. So it’s just to buy! It’s for a good cause. Food and people happened once a while trough the day. Another night on the keyboard. Went to sleep like I did the two last days, at 5 am. I went home a little today to take a shower. At about 23:00 there was a wrestling show on the main stage! I didn’t watch too carefully though. Nothing too interesting.

Day Four
I woke up with just 2-3 hours of sleep, just like the other days. Today I arranged a trip to this Pizza restaurant with the rest of the people I sat by (none of whom I had met before). It was a success, only few people showed up. No seminars today. The end of many compos were today. I WON the shop competition I won $575!! How cool isn’t that? I earned going to TG. so visit the winning shop! I watched the price ceremony and meet a few another people. All in all it was pretty fun. But a little sad this was the last day. Everybody had to be out of the ship before tomorrow 14:00. I tried to do everything I wanted to do before leaving, but unfortuantely didn’t manage to do so. I didn’t go to sleep this night. The picture below is the row that I sat on, the HW-Rekka (HW-Row). Today we put up our banner!

Day Five
As said I didn’t sleep this night. I was tired as #@&! and wanted almost everything else than to do phusical work like packing my computer. But the days of sorrow had to come and I packed up and got myself home. Said goodbye to everyone I managed and to the ship. I am so going next year! TG08, watch out for me!

I slept almost that whole day, and almost the whole next day! I managed to recover before school to my normal state of tiredness. But I still wear the bracelet we were given at TG and I miss it. I miss all of my new friends from there, and I’ll see you all next year! Until that times come… :’)

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