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Vance has gone to Michael C's office in neon.communities.com at the Palace ...
Connected via TCP
Vance: There you are.
Ying-Lan: Hi, Vance.
MichaelC: I just had a message from Vance - he said virtual scholar is working again....let's try and find him. But I have forgotten the name and port number...
Ying-Lan: Sorry, I have to go now. My nephew wants to play the game
Vance: Well, I can tell you. I had a message from Vance too.
Vance: ok
Ying-Lan: He will go home thirty minutes later.
MichaelC: Talking to yourself Vance? OK Ying.
Ying-Lan: Sorry.
MichaelC: That was quick!
Vance: OK, maybe we should go to virtual scholar
Vance: efi.virtualscholar.com port 9998
MichaelC: Yes let's. What's the address? Ok - got it
Vance: In case you've forgotten (you need a RAM upgrade)
Ying-Lan: Wait, Can you show your avatars?
Vance: ok
MichaelC: Yes I can!
Ying-Lan: My nephews are courious who you are.
MichaelC: In that case....
Ying-Lan: How about your true face?
Ying-Lan: Say Hello to you!
Ying-Lan: Hi, How are you?
MichaelC: Ok ...my real face!
Ying-Lan: Thanks Michaelc
Ying-Lan: Thanks
MichaelC: Mine's not very good. I need to make a new one.
Vance: Mine is all jumbled up
Ying-Lan: He says your glasses is very strange.
Ying-Lan: funny.
Ying-Lan: Sorry, I have to go now.
MichaelC: How old is your nephew?
Ying-Lan: Thanks for your show.
Vance: But we were just getting started ...
MichaelC: LOL
Vance: wait, there's more ...
Vance: (just kidding)
Ying-Lan: The old one is 8 years old. The young one is 5 years.
MichaelC: Ah...so there are 2.
Ying-Lan: They are naughty.
Ying-Lan: Yes.
Ying-Lan: They are boys.
Vance: Naughty possibly suggests intelligence, a spirit of adventure with curiosity
Ying-Lan: They intronduce themself to you in Chinese.
MichaelC: Thank you boys.
Vance: Nice to meet you.
Ying-Lan: Nice to meet you!
MichaelC: Your aunty is a very nice person!
Ying-Lan: Thanks Michalec.
Vance: Your aunt has very strange teachers.
MichaelC: LOL
Ying-Lan: Strange Teacher!
MichaelC: Now I look better.
Vance: Fun teachers, fun students!
Ying-Lan: Thanks.
Ying-Lan: See you later.
MichaelC: OK Ying - bye. Bye boys!
Vance: OK. I think I'll breeze over to virtual scholar. Coming michael?
Ying-Lan: My nephews say bye-bye to you.
Ying-Lan: Sure.
Vance: Bye guys.
Ying-Lan: See you later.
Vance: Join the class if you like.
MichaelC: Yep. See you there. I'll just clean up a little.
Vance: OK. See you after a while I hope, YL.
MichaelC: Bye ying.
Connecting to efi.virtualscholar.com:9998
Connected via TCP
*** @16,16 Coterie, Inc. welcomes you to The Virtual Education Center.
Vance: @64,64 !It's Vance
*** @16,16 Click on the logos for related web sites and further information.
*** @16,16 Click Welcome to enter the main site.
MichaelC: So where to from here?
*** @16,16 Say help to move to the help room or say gate to return to this entrance.
Vance: Hi there.
Vance: Try the VEC logo
*** @16,16 Notice in the lower right hand corner of the court yard a compass rose.
*** @16,16 Click on Demonstration to see two sample lessons programmed into the Virtual Education Center©
*** @16,16 To find out about what the Pala
ce can do for education click on Palace Education.
*** @16,16 Clicking on the Auditorium will take you to a room where presentations may be made to others.
*** @16,16 Coterie, Inc., on the compass rose, takes you to a room which gives back
ground about our company.
Vance: Remember, I have an especially long download for this one.
Vance: I mean, graphics download
MichaelC: Hi again. Where's Maggie?
Vance: She was on icq. But if we want to meet her we'll have to go back outside.
Vance: Maybe we should do that. Do you have graphics here?
MichaelC: Back outside? Why?
MichaelC: And i have the graphics.
Vance: Because visitors will arrive there.
MichaelC: But what do you mean outside exactly?
Vance: I mean the portal
Vance: shall we?
MichaelC: Where there are millions of people/
MichaelC: The Welcome Palace/
Vance: No, I mean the efi.virtualscholar.com portal
Vance: options / back
MichaelC: Where we just were?
Vance: That's the one.
Vance: shall we?
MichaelC: Der michael. OK.
Vance: Hang on a minute. I've got to spend a moment with a colleague. I'm here if you want to ramble on.
MichaelC: I'm pretty easy. I'll wait a while......
Vance: I'm having to ftp something to my web site so he can get it.
Vance: Would you like to email me the graphics for the room we were just in?
MichaelC: OK - I'll try. Gotta work out which ones they are...
Maggi: @64,64 !It's Maggi
MichaelC: Hi Maggie.
Maggi: I'm still in the dark...
Maggi: Hi
MichaelC: So is Vance. I'm emailing him the graphic.
Maggi: You were hidden behind the log Mc
Maggi: I have it now
Maggi: My laptop is slow
Maggi: This screen is so small...:-(
Maggi: So, how goes it guys?
MichaelC: Fine Maggie. But I'm about to begin the busiest week of the year (the last).
MichaelC: How's the moving?
Maggi: why?
MichaelC: The last week is always vaguely frantic.
Maggi: not the moving..
Maggi: why is that
Maggi: moving...well it is moving...:-)
MichaelC: Deadlines - resulting students, planning for next year, and we have a big show and tell on Thursday that involves getting a lot of stuff up on the web.
Maggi: I see...
Vance: Hi there.
Maggi: I have piles to do too but am just sticking to priorities...the rest will have to wait.
Vance: Back again. I actually had to go to another room.
Maggi: why?
MichaelC: Vance - the file (school2.gif) is on the way.
MichaelC: maggie's question of the day - why?!
Maggi: where is the schoolhouse?
Vance: ok. I'll load it and we visit.
Vance: Why did I have to go to another room? I had to set a couple of guys on a task that I'm avoiding by being here.
Maggi: I always ask too many questions...women's perogative.
Maggi: I actually got fired from a job once for asking too many questions.
MichaelC: Are you leaving town for your leave Vance?
Maggi: Good excuse, eh Vance?
Vance: I could get fired for not having enough answers, but I usually manage to make them up.
gloria: @64,64 !It's gloria
Vance: Yeah, this Wednesday I'm heading for Caracas.
Vance: Hi Gloria.
Maggi: I can always think of something...or ask a question back.
Maggi: Hi Gloria
MichaelC: Hello Gloria.
Vance: Oh, now I see Maggi. You were fired for answering questions with questions.
Maggi: Caracas...hmmm
Vance: Yeah, but a long way from Asencion
MichaelC: How's life in Paraguay Gloria?
gloria: well, very hot nowadays
Maggi: Off on another adventure Vance?
Vance: Here, you can have my space under the tree.
gloria: very good
Vance: Do you mean, "Very well." ??
gloria: very good idea (under the tree)
Maggi: girls stick together...LOL
Vance: That's correct then. 'Very well' means agreement.
Vance: You guys are stuck together, alright.
Maggi: LOL...say Gloria...do you have mistletoe at Christmas?
gloria: mistletoe?
MichaelC: Dear People - have to go. Are you around till Wednesday Vance?
Vance: This is actually a mistletoe tree.
MichaelC: Very curious Gloria.
Vance: How are you guys able to do that?
Maggi: those little green berry like stuff that grows as a parasite in trees...
Maggi: do what?
MichaelC: Just talent.
gloria: oh!
Vance: Can't manage it.
Maggi: there is no such thing as a mistletoe tree...
Vance: Well what's this then?
MichaelC: See ya folks. Sorry to run.
Maggi: you mean you can't move Vance?
Vance: OK, MC, nice to see you again.
Maggi: bye mc!
gloria: Bye MC
MichaelC: Ciao.
Vance: Thanks for keeping up the writing assignments.
Maggi: keep cool!
MichaelC: No problem.
Maggi: in the summer no less....:-)
Vance: I can't move in small steps like Gloria and MC were doing.
Vance: Those are big steps.
gloria: very hard to move this day
Vance: I think that's it. Your machine is just slow.
Maggi: I have a real nasty bruice on my back...
Maggi: bruise
Vance: A bruise? Did you get it moving?
Maggi: I fell off the chair because my desk moved (it is on wheels) and landed on the corner of something sharp...
Maggi: went betwen the ribs..
Vance: Don't you think it would be better to put the wheels on your chair?
Vance: I'm trying to imagine Maggi with a mouse. She's moving the desk around under the mouse ...
Maggi: I was sitting on a solid wooden kindergqarten chair...the one I have now has wheels.
Maggi: I have a touch pad...:-)
gloria: how is life in frankfurt Maggi?
Vance: I have one too on my laptop.
Vance: I see on CNN that rainstorms are raging where you are, Maggi.
Maggi: Frankfurt is under construction...I was there Monday...I live south of there thank goodness.
Maggi: The wind was strong the other day...
gloria: I hate storms
Maggi: blew everything all over...me almost too!
Vance: The weather in the UAE is perfect right now. I was camping all weekend with my family.
gloria: poor you
Maggi: I managed to stay on my feet Gloria!
Maggi: How was it Vance?
gloria: thanks God! ;)
gloria: I must go now
gloria: take care, see you!
Vance: OK Gloria, nice to see you again. Write webheads some more. Your writing is excellent.
gloria: Thanks Vance! you are very kind..you too Mad
Vance: Tell us about your Sunday in Acension in the summer. These things make great reading.
Vance: (I mean, normal to you, but interesting to us)
Maggi: I hit something wrong...
gloria: ok, but is Asuncion :)
Vance: Thank you. Asuncion.
gloria: Have a good time in Caracas
Maggi: tell us about it...I love hearing about others customs...:-)
Vance: I like learning from my students. This is why I teach, in fact.
gloria: bye
Maggi: Me too!
Vance: bye
Maggi: BYE gLORIA
Vance: Nice people.
Maggi: oops...bye Gloria
Vance: hang on a moment while I capture the logs
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