Baduk Trip with Mini Bus from Grenoble to Berlin! 1st day
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On 20th of April, our Baduk trip had started, and the first destination was Stuttgart in Germany. To arrive in Stuttgart before 3 P.M., we had to leave Grenoble in the early morning, 6:30 A.M., and In-seong and Jose had to pick the rented mini buses before that, which means we had to wake up before 5 A.M. I can wake up whenever but it is always tiring to wake up early. Even the weather didn't help us. It was quite rainy. However, it is a trip! I guess everyone was excited for the next 6 days. Our group was 16 people consisted of 6 children, 4 youths, and 6 adults. How did it happen? It was organized by Jose Olivares and supported by various organizations such as Grenoble city hall, French Go Federation, and Giant Casino which is the one of the biggest local super markets in Grenoble. The organizer, Jose Olivares, brought the sponsors by convincing them how good Baduk is to children. He is a science teacher in college (middle school in U.S.A) and teaches Baduk in 2 schools, the one where he works and another one where his children go. Thanks to him, Grenoble city hall put Baduk as a 3-year of project.
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Organizer, Jose Olivares.
He managed the trip, took care of the children, and drove for the long way.
I would like to say thank to him again through this column.
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Nice break time in Schaffhausen!
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Rheinfall in Schaffhausen
Back to the story of our trip, we went through Switzerland on the way to Stuttgart as planned. The route was Grenoble-Geneva-Lausanne-Bern-Zurich-Schaffhausen-Germany. How could we just pass the beautiful nature in Switzerland? Unplanned but we stopped by the famous Rheinfall in Schaffhausen. The rain in the morning was not helpful, but the rain in the afternoon was very good for us to see the powerful fall. It was a short but nice break. Thanks to that the trip to Stuttgart was not really tiring than expected.
Finally we got to the Baduk club in Stuttgart, and people there kindly welcomed us. Some people came from other cities to meet us! Since the teacher of this trip, In-seong had lived in Germany for two and half years, he introduced each other and matched games. We enjoyed our first friendship team matches.
After the games, we had a short walk in the Stuttgart main street and went to the hotel. The hotel was more like a nice house with beautiful view from the terrace. I loved there and wished to stay more days, but we had to leave right next morning for another trip in Halle.
It was our first day. The next day, new stories were made. Please wait for the next one, trip in Halle!
Stuttgart Baduk Club: it is basically a resturant
In-seong is matching games between Grenoble and Stuttgart people
Friendship match: Grenoble vs. Stuttgart!
In-seong is reviewing the Board 1 game
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Jose Olivares and Thomas Schmid, the captains of Grenoble and Stuttgart
They exchanged their gifts each other as if promised.
I would like to thank to Thomas Schmid for helping friendship match and the wine!
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Young Grenoble guys were not tired after the long day!
They played board games in the hotel when In-seong and I fell asleep.
Written by Semi Lee
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