Now for the FEM05 story, where to start? Quite an adventure it was. This isn't really a too detailed story, it's hard to write about every funny thing that happened, and just how cool it was to be there. It's more like a very small summary of what happened each day (although not sure how exact all the information is, should have written something after each day to remember it better). Take every fact with a grain of salt. This is not intended as some "complete" FEM story or anything. Saturday the 11th Cubein drove from Stavanger to Skien to pick up xp, they then drove down here to Oslo. Got a call from them around 20.00 or so, and tried to explain where they should go. Not too easy, seeing as my general street and road knowledge in Oslo is near zero, specially when it comes to driving. Agreed to meet them at a nearby park, raced down there as fast as I could. A bit less nervousness than expected. Said hello and all that, got in the car, then we drove back to my place. Both of them were pretty easy going and nice guys, we sat around a bit playing Elma on my two computers. After a while we went out and grabbed something to eat at a nearby McDonalds. Went back to my place again, and played more Elma. Had some small battle at one of the best levels ever made, cubein5.lev, which xp won eventually. Cubein and xp höyled some WCup, but never got any times to send in the end. Went to bed around 03.00. Sunday the 12th Woke up around 10-11, took a shower and got all my stuff ready for departure. We took off a bit before noon, heading to Stockholm where we were going to catch the ~20.00 boat going to Turku. Not too much to say about the trip to Stockholm really. Some talking and discussing mostly. Came across a store with a sign that said "El-ma norge", which was sort of amusing. Arrived in Stockholm more or less right on time, perfectly "planned". Found our cabin on the boat, went around a bit, then headed to the tax-free shop to buy beer (Tuborg of course, except xp who is a poser and bought Carlsberg). Headed up to the "Fun Club" later in the night, had a beer, and Cubein played some black jack (and lost). Went to bed quite early, we had to get up around 07.00 the next day after all. Monday the 13th Woo, this is the day where it gets serious. Started driving from Turku around 08.00, towards Tampere where we did a small stop at a super market type place. Then headed to Jyväskylä and stopped there to do some more serious grocery shopping, stocking up on food and snacks. Then we were on our way to the FEM cottage, which tooke quite a while to figure out the location of. Got there eventually, and the nerves started building up as we approached the cottage. It was quite unreal to finally shake hands with people that you've talked to only on IRC for so long. There were already some 8-10 people there, and I believe MIF, px, terb0 and BarTek were the first ones that greeted us when we arrived. Started to bring our computers upstairs and meet the others that were already there. It was hard to really start talking with anyone fully, but at least terb0 and px were helpful with trying to start conversations and speaking english. The one thing I think I (and probably others) remembers most from the first day, is Jeppe and his drinking. He arrived together with Abula and Juzam (I think?) already drunk, and continued to drink from his vodka bottle as the day went on. I remember at one point when I was talking with Cubein, Jeppe stands next to us and Cubein tells him to take a sip from the bottle and tells him jokingly like "aren't you going to finish that?". Jeppe takes more or less the rest of the bottle in one sip, and we're talking some ~2-3dl of vodka here. Needless to say, Jeppe got pretty fucked up Monday, with some amusing situations ensuing from it. I think I'll keep those to myself and other FEM people (a lesson; be there next year if you want to know everything that goes on). Eventually Jalli and TorInge showed up, nice to meet those guys. One thing is clear, TorInge is one sick dude! At one point he started to ask sort of random people to take multi wrs with him, and it didn't really take more than 5-10mins for each to be broken. I think the first one was Pipe together with Cubein. Even I tried once together with TorInge on Steep Corner, where I fucked up a lot of run (he's quite a patient guy as well I must say). Luckily around the fifth try, I managed to hold still at the flower, and it was also TorInge's best attempt, WR it was. It wasn't really that satisfactory, after all, Toringe did all the hard stuff. Fun experience anyway though. Tuesday the 14th Started to get a bit more settled in by now, but it still felt a bit awkward being there. The remaining guys showed up this day - MP, Orcc and Jokke. And also a surprise visit from onlainari, which was very cool. Played some Virtual Pool 3 together with him and talking a little bit. Don't have any significent memories from this day really. Wednesday the 15th GAA award prizes were presented, quite fun. onlainari had to leave unfortunately. Blah, blah, this and that. I'm starting to get tired of writing. Thursday the 16th This is kinda the first day when I really got talking to people. Had quite a few beers, grilled some and talked to the other people there. Just a nice chill day with little playing and lots of socializing. And, for the the first time in my life, I tried the sauna. Very positive experience, and not at all like I expected it to be. Wasn't really too much of a problem staying in there for long. Friday the 17th Started the day with driving to the nearby super market together with Cubein, xp and MIF. I knew from oizo that swedes jokingly thought that we say guleböj (yellow bend) instead of banana in Norway. The funny thing was when MIF asked if we really do, I think he seriously thought it was true. Cubein, never having heard about it before, started laughing quite hysterically of that. Mmm.. beer battle day. This, together with Thursday, were definitely the best and coolest days overall. onlainari came back again, cool. My biggest achievement in my career is easily the one beer battle win that I got. After 10 events or so, it was more about actually finishing the level for me. After finishing there wasn't any time to höyl as I had to finish my beer instead. Didn't do too good in the later events, but at least I finished all of them and ended up on 5th or 6th place (?). Have vague memory of sitting on MP's lap caressing him with Juzam sitting on my lap, rest of the night is kind of blurry. There might have been some sauna involved as well. Saturday the 18th Woke up without any trace of a hangover surprisingly, maybe the sauna helped? Stomach was a different matter however, felt queezy for quite some hours. I think Saturday was another chill day in general. Sunday the 19th Sad day, time to leave. Woke up around noon, hurried to get our stuff together as we had some way to drive, and also a boat to catch. We ended up having way too much time, but at least better than missing the boat. Ate at some grill place in Turku and sat around at some church place, where lots of swedish drunk people had gathered as well. Bought 1 litre Finlandia lime, 50cl Malibu white rum and 50cl Sourz apple on the boat. Early night today as well, had to get up 6.30 the next day. Monday the 20th We were waken up by the cleaning guy, asking if we weren't planning to get off. We were kinda wtf? The clock was quite late, we hurried and packed our stuff, went down to the car deck, to see it completely empty. We were so late they had moved our car out of the boat in some unknown way. Got to Oslo around 15.00, what a relief it was getting back home to internet and all that.

General thoughts Sorry for the somewhat boring story, I know from last year personally how much you wanted to read about all the funny events and see pictures and everything. Once you've been there yourself it's not that exciting writing about it. But, take my word for it, it's worth going. Very worth going. Everybody I met were nice people. There were some that I got a better impression of than others though. Cubein and xp were the one I talked the most to ("obviously"), and besides those I can say that terb0 is one funny and nice guy. I think he helped quite a bit with the transition between the norwegian/swedish and finnish people, trying to speak english as much as possible. MP was extremely cutypants, outgoing and funny. And last, but not least, Juzam deserves a worthy mention. He was a really, really nice, friendly and cool guy. Wish I had talked some more to different people though. A great week it was.