ok, either our weather man is REALLY good, or he is incredibly lucky, but this morning when we had the briefing at 8:00 am, we were shaking our heads like "yeah right" when there was the announcement that at 10am the weather will clear out... since this morning there was a lot of fog and low cloud base and all, and visibility was really poor. But at 10 am it cleared and we started the flights.
Ok, lets go a while back... On saturday was the opening seremony, which I have to say, was the best so far. And I can say this with all my experience of 3 big contests... :) Last year in Jämi, it took about 13 minutes, with speeches like "welcome to Finland, lets go fly!" and in Torun it was held in a tent way too small, with few speaches, in Polish of course (ok, Marta did translate them) and some food and so on, but now we had the teams marching to the front of the hangar, few speaches, playing some anthems, and then there was this cultural event with some local music and dancing. I kind of liked it, it is nice to see some local things. The opening dinner was nice and the food was good and I really enjoyed the evening.
On saturday, the first flights were done, only 4 due some weather conditions, but today (sunday) we really got to do our "judging business" and got 35 flights done in the Q-sequence. Morning did not look too promising, but amazingly - just like the weatherman said- it all cleared at 10 and the flying started. Ok, few words about the judging... or more like how and where we do that... We were transported to the other judging position, where there was tables for all judges, then there were chairs for assistants and some weird old kind of an army beds for the judges. Just like yesterday. I have been told now, by several judges, that the "beds" are not that good to sit on, and it gets your back hurt a lot... Hopefully there is a change to that coming up... Anyway, we are sitting on the end of the runway, on an old wheat field and luckily we also got some parasols, since there is no shade within... well, a long way.
After 31 flights today with the Q-sequence (the known), we got back to the "base" had a german night with some bratwurst and beer and nice chats with others. It was quite a lovely night. I had fun and enjoyed the athmosphere and the people. It is quite unique, that there are so many languages around, english is the official language of course, but then you hear german, french, hungarian, polish, slovakian, russian, portugese, swedish and of course finnish, which I use of course with "my judge" and so on... I have studied french at school for several years, but since you don't have to use it anywhere, you basicly forget it. Then I have studied a bit of german, which is very difficult language for me, but now I have been pleased to notice, that when you jusst listen, you eventually start to understand something. Possibly. Maybe.
But there is no way I can speak those. No, not yet at least.
Tomorrow will the flying continue and there will be more Q-fligts. Then we'll continue to the free-programs, which are made by the pilots themselfs. Then there will be a unknown, which will be composed here according to the teams proposals and of course the sporting code. But we'll see what happens then. Now I need to get some sleep, since the briefing is going to be at 8 am. Again.
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