INSEAD weekend

This weekend LBS invaded Fontainebleau. Basically the LBS basketball, rugby and women touch rugby teams played against INSEAD.

The final scores were kind of balanced, but with the overall victory going to INSEAD. The basketball team (where I play) lost by 2 points, the rugby teams lost one and won another match, and the ladies drew. But we'll have our revenge at the MBAT! ;-)

However, this was a fantastic weekend! Congratulations and a big thank you to all those guys at INSEAD who really put some effort on receiving as well. They drove us around the small Fontainebleau village, took us to a few bars and to an awesome party on Saturday. This party was held on a chateau (lots of these over there) which was soooo cool! Apparently, all weeks at INSEAD are dedicated to a country, and this was their Australian week. Saturday was the ending party. Here's a photo from the dining room (I took it with my mobile phone, so the quality is not that great):


Since their campus is located in a small village surrounded by forest, the way they spend their free time is a bit different from us here at LBS. There's only a few bars and no clubs, so they keep organising house parties and events in chateaus, like this saturday's dinner. Probably because of this, I got the feeling that they have a stronger community sense than we do here at LBS. When there's something happen, almost all 300 of them go there. Because they don't have anything else to go. Not like in here, in the middle of London, where we have hundreds of different things to do on a weekend. I guess this has some pros and cons, like everything. Maybe they get a stronger and closer group, but... that's ok for one or two months. I'm afraid that spending one year like that would be too much for me. However, they have the opportunity to do one term at the Singapore campus and they do use it to change their routine.

Now I'm just trying to recover from that crazy crazy party and starting to study for my finance exam (next saturday morning).