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Chat with students Ying Lan from Taiwan, Paolo from Italy, Bridgett from Jamaica, and Felix from Brazil, teachers Maggi, Michael, and Vance, and guest Sergei from Minsk |
The chat this week took place almost entirely in the voice chat. Vance monitored the Homestead site and the Palace. Ying Lan and Michael both came to the Palace (Michael to his surprise) but both went immediately to the voice chat. There we had a visitor, Sergei, who was not able to hear much due to poor network connection, so we wrote down much of what we said, and this makes the text logs easier for you to follow. Ying Lan was there and reported problems with a sleeping disorder. Felix dropped in since he was catching up with work on a Sunday due to time spent on studies. Paolo from Italy was there, about to visit his brother in his new house. And Bridgett was there as well and showed us her fashion design website. We talked about the t-shirt project, and Bridgett let us know she is ready with the t-shirt and waiting for us to design a logo.
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Sergei: Yes! But I don't have a mike
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Sergei: Hi Bridgett
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Sergei: She has left
Sergei: Hi Maggi
Maggi: Hi...
Sergei: I'm Sergei from Minsk
Maggi: Hi...nice to meet you...
Sergei: Yes, Welcome to text chat
Sergei: I have a bit of a problem with my
speakers
Sergei: Can't hear you properly
Sergei: Go ahead. I'll try to follow you
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Sergei: Hi again! Looks like I missed a lot
Maggi: not much
Maggi: so has Spring sprung Sergei?
Sergei: What are our plans for the future? I can't follow you, 'couse the
Internet is very slow here
Sergei: Oh Yes! and we feel like whistling
Maggi: birds singing...nice eh?
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Vance: multiuser object oriented
Vance: multiuser dungeon
Maggi: no...nulti user domain
Maggi: multi
Maggi: Sergei...do you get Spring fever...
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Vance: helooooo
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Vance: no voice is coming through
Sergei: I Can't hear you
Sergei: I go on and off
Vance: Yeah, that's pretty normal
Sergei: Yes, go ahead
Vance: these days
Vance: how many fingers?
Vance: couldn't hear you, Sergei
Vance: Sergei, could you hear me just then?
Sergei: No
Vance: It's ok, we can text chat
Sergei: Please use text chat if you
feel comfortable
Maggi: well...like he said...not missing much
Vance: Yeah, fine, less obtrusive in some ways
Sergei: Still no students
Vance: Maggi sounds just the same in text chat
Maggi: that means you can't hear me either Sergei?
Sergei: No, Ican't
Maggi: Vance is right.
Vance: Often one person in a 5-way voice chat will hear everyone clearly.
Vance: One won't hear anything
Sergei: Aha
Vance: One will get everything from all but one of the others
Vance: And the other 2 get broken voice packets
Vance: Bridgett is online. She's a
student from Jamaica
Sergei: Well, yes, it happens sometime
Sergei: Welcome
Vance: The sound is delivered packet by packet.
If all works well it sounds continuous
Vance: But if it doesn't work then
Vance: (silence)
Vance: (more silence)
Vance: you suddenly get ano
Vance: (silence)
Vance: ther packet like this.
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Sergei: Hi,Bridgett
Maggi: Hi Bridgett...
Sergei: Sure!
Vance: I was just explaining to Bridgett that you can't hear, Sergei
Sergei: Hi
Vance: B said she had to reboot but all is well now. Can you hear her Sergei?
Vance: Can he?
Sergei: No... continue with text chat ,please
Maggi: ok...
Vance: B asked what's the topic.
Maggi: Spring Fever
Vance: I said, we should talk about t-shirts
Vance: B says she hasn't checked her email about the shirts
Vance: she has made a tshirt for the webheads class, but there is no logo
Vance: I'm asking how we can get the logo to her. GIF? Jpg? (I hope)
Maggi: they are talking about the t-shirt
Maggi: so Sergei...do Russians get Sring fever?
Maggi: Spring
Sergei: I like t-shirts
Maggi: because the Germans get tired...:-)
Sergei: What's your favourite T-shirt slogan?
Sergei: Great!
Vance: We're trying to make a webheads tshirt but we have to design the logo.
Vance: Bridgett is a clothes designer
Vance: She can make the tshirt with the logo
Vance: She was thinking more like .. a pocket logo? Probably a printed logo.
Vance: Education, English ...
Vance: We need a symbol
Maggi: People in Miami made t-shirts in Spanish for the Pope's vist but instead
of it saying I Saw the Pope in Spanish it said I Saw the Potato...
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Vance: What do you think Maggi? I'll try
to record some ideas here.
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Vance: Bridgett is ready to work on the project whenever we come up with an idea
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Sergei: Thanks Bridgett
Sergei: Hi Felix
Vance: See the idea, Sergei, is to make a tshirt and design a logo amonst the
class
Vance: then we want to get sponsorship to pay for it.
Sergei: Just fine
Vance: Bridgett said she's had some very late nights (working) last week
Sergei: No, no Vance.Not this time
Vance: I might be missing some of this.
I see 3 green names but hear nothing but Maggi
Vance: I heard that Felix
Vance: Felix just played us a blast of Music, Sergei
Vance: Actually it was MUSIC!!!
Sergei: What were you doing last week,Bridgett?
Maggi: I hear everyone
Sergei: Sorry, I've missed that!
Sergei: Can you sing?
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Felix: I was watching FORMULA 01
Maggi: Hi Ying
Maggi: Felix says he can't sing
Vance: Yeah, you're coming in clearly
Maggi: Sergei can't hear us
Sergei: Can he dance?
Vance: Ying Lan says she had to go to Taipei last week due to a problem in her
life
Vance: She sleeps only 3 or 4 hours in a day
Felix: YING your voice is SO HIGH
Felix: oops.. SO LOAD
Vance: So is yours Felix, so loud
Vance: But it's ok
Felix: oops.. I forgot the speelling
Vance: That is ok
Vance: I think it's about right Ying Lan
Felix: loud
Vance: So, YL, you sent to see a doctor in Taipei? What did he say?
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Vance: She went to a class (voice disappeared)
Felix: Who is Sergei?
Vance: Bad enough I have to keep the logs, I have to write them too
Sergei: Thanks,Vance
Vance: http://www.netword.com/webheads
Ying: <Type here to chat>
Felix: Vance I just can hear your breath
Sergei: I can hear you from time to time
Ying: Psxchology of potentail
Vance: http://www.netword.com/teaching4webheads
Vance: I can't hear Ying Lan
Vance: :-(
Vance: On my interface it says Ying is talking, but I can't hear her.
Status: Disconnected
Status: Disconnected
Network error
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Status: Connected
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Maggi: she comes in and out...
Ying: I don't know how to explain it... but I found the source of trouble in my
life.
Maggi: well that is good
Vance: What was the source?
Ying: Like I am always regret something which I could not changed.
Sergei: She can go to text chat too.
Vance: YL can't sleep due to worries
Vance: Maggi suggests reiki
Vance: YL asked Maggi to repeat
Sergei: It always happens with me too
Vance: What's that Sergei, unable to sleep?
Maggi: most people can't sleep if you have something on your mind.
Sergei: Yes, I'm Sergei
Sergei: I always have something on my mind
Vance: When Bridgett can't sleep she reads
Vance: She says two months ago her aunt died and she got a lot of reading done
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Maggi: try just concentrating on your breathing Ying...
Vance: Vance says he works when he can't sleep but that doesn't happen often because
he's usually happy
Ying: What is reiki?
Maggi: empty your mind and just observe you breathing
Maggi: reiki is finding a source of universal energy
Vance: Vance and Bridgett agree that not being able to sleep just makes the
condition worse
Maggi: I do this when I go to the dentist...it works...I am very relaxed.
Vance: Reading relaxes Bridgett
Sergei: Where can we find it?
Maggi: find what...the enrgy?
Ying: It sounds hard to do... to find a source of universal energy.
Maggi: it isn't
Sergei: You are kidding
Maggi: you just need to find a way to tap into it...
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Maggi: no...Sergei...it may sound strange but I am not
Sergei: I can' t believe you,Maggi!!!
Maggi: you don't have to :-)
Vance: Bridgett asked about ... ??
Vance: a magazine from Germany called Elegant
Vance: Maggi knows it
Maggi: Eleganz...
Sergei: Ok,ok,ok...
Vance: (Michael is on his way)
Vance: Maggi will buy one and send it to Bridgett
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Vance: Bridgett will email the address, but maybe she can subscribe in Jamaica
Vance: Michael is singing a good evening song
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Michael: Hi everyone.
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Vance: Michael, I'm writing a lot so Sergei can follow us
Vance: He's not getting very good reception
Michael: OK.
Vance: Bridgett appreciates that Maggi will send her a copy of Eleganz
Sergei: Hi Michael!
Michael: What is ELEGANZ about?
Michael: Hi Sergei.
Vance: Me neither. I don't know it
Michael: So ELEGANZ is a German fashion magazine!
Sergei: Probably, poetry
Vance: Bridgett says it's a fashion magazine, and she's seen it in Jamaica on
tourists, but she can't get it
Maggi: LOL
Michael: Men know something about fashion don't they?!
Vance: Bridgett implied that women would know about this magazine
Sergei: Hi there!
Maggi: do they?
Vance: hi
Vance: (down Maggi)
Michael: Vance has a great sense of fashion.
Michael: What about you Sergei? Are you fashion conscious?
Michael: Vance thinks Michael would be a well dressed guy!
Maggi: mmm...it's called ... this is me
Vance: Michael doesn't know what he's talking about
Vance: Michael likes to feel comfortable.
Vance: He likes to wear clothes in the middle
Michael: Yeh - jeans and a nice shirt or something.
Vance: Maggi likes Jeans (my favorite clothing, btw)
Maggi: middle of the road is a good place to get run over...LOL
Vance: Bridgett wears suits, jeans, tshirts
Vance: She goes to fashion shows and dresses up
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Vance: Next fashion show she's not going but her creations are
Michael: Do you have a website to show your fashions Bridgett?
Maggi: Maggi means that is mc's fashion statement
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Vance: Bridgett has a website! So what's
the URL???
Sergei: ELEGANZ.... I like the sound of it...
Vance: Yeah, send it
Maggi: I bet Sergei has some sense of fashion
Vance: can't wait
Sergei: Not at all
Vance: She likes simple stuff, clean lines, soft fabrics, doing stuff for the
tourists
Vance: no complications, basic stuff
Vance: (lost audio)
Michael: How cold does it get in Jamaica?
Vance: It does get cold, no snow, so she makes warm clothes for Dec, Jan, long
sleeves
Maggi: probably like Oz
Michael: Maybe Maggi. But I thought Jamaica was always tropical.
Vance: can get chilly, visitors don't think so but Jamaicans do
Michael: OZ = Australia
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Michael: Hello there Paulo.
Vance: Sergei, were you talking to paolo earlier? Could you hear him?
Paolo: hi, ive spoke to Sergei
Vance: Can anyone hear me?
Michael: I can hear everyone.
Vance: Michael can hear everyone he says.
Paolo is coming in clearly
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Vance: Michael wants to know what's the news in Italy today (they don't have tv
in oz?
Vance: Paolo is at his brother's house?
Michael: Paulo is going to his brother's house today.
Vance: MC asked if he goes there every Sunday
Vance: Any special occasion, MC wants to know?
Vance: Actually, Paolo is not so clear to me.
I am getting only a bit at a time.
Paraphrase for me Michael.
Vance: P's brother has a new house
Michael: Paulo is going to his brother's house because he has a new house and he
is getting married.
Vance: The house is in Paolo's town. I'm
not getting most of what he's saying
Michael: That's better!
Vance: That's much better
Michael: Paulo was talking too close to the microphone.
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Sergei: How many room are there in your brother's house?
Michael: You can say, : "He lives 30 kilometres away"
Vance: Yeah, I was just telling you what I understand, but I've written it
above.
Michael: Evening Ying. (It is evening for me and Ying.)
Vance: Paolo's house is "little" 5 or 6 rooms
Ying: Good evening.
Vance: Hi Ying
Paolo: hi sergei
Michael: The average Australian house would have 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and lounge.
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Maggi: living room
Michael: Yes - living room is the lounge.
Vance: They are talking about the rooms in a house ...
Sergei: It's 16:01 in Minsk
Michael: LOL
Sergei: Good Evening!
Maggi: the questions they ask....
Vance: Michael is getting personal now, he asks if Paolo likes the woman his
brotehr is going to marry?
Sergei: How was your day?
Vance: I can't hear the answer, but I think Paolo said it's better to be single.
Vance: WHen single you have only two problems.
When you are married you have a lot of problems
Sergei: Hi Paolo
Michael: LOL
Vance: few problems
Vance: esp for women tehre are a lot of problems esp when they have kids
Michael: No comment!
Vance: Magggi says its easier to raise a child alone
Vance: Bridgett has no intention of getting married
Vance: She doesn't need to cook for some guy
Michael: Bridgett is a free woman!
Vance: she can do anything, so she doesn't need it
Vance: 30 next month?
Vance: yeah, in june
Michael: Yes 30.
Michael: Bridgett is certain - she is NOT getting married!
Vance: B isn't married because she doesn't like "these guys:
Maggi: marry young and get it over with...LOL
Sergei: A child needs a father i think
Michael: Interesting point Sergei.
Vance: http://www.netword.com/webheads
Vance: You can meet us all there
Maggi: yes...one that wants to be a father but none is better when they aren't
Paolo: Bridgett, all guys all around the world ??!!
Sergei: Why not? You'll get tired being alone!
Paolo: the father is import for chilldren as the mother
Michael: That's true Paulo.
Michael: But I also agree with what Maggi said.
Maggi: yes they are Paolo...I agree....but I can't just buy one can I?
Vance: Of course it's best if children have two parents who love them and each
other
Vance: But not every child has two such parents, then what?
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Status: Disconnected
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Michael: What do you think Maggi?
Paolo: Maggi, how is the wether there?
Michael: Australia follows the US in everything!
Maggi: yukky
Sergei: America sets standards and we follow them
Maggi: well stop doing that...
Michael: America is the big leader in the world!
Vance: I leave the chat for jsut a few minutes and look what you guys are
talking about!
Michael: LOL
Vance: Separation? What kind of
separation?
Maggi: separation here is different
Maggi: many people do not divorce because it is expensive
Maggi: people should think longer before they marry
Michael: Here it costs about $50!
Vance: Here you say I divorce you 3 times (so I hear)
Maggi: cost thousands here mc
Sergei: We have the same weather in Minsk
Maggi: only for the men Vance
Maggi: fat chance
Maggi: not so easy
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Michael: Sergei - can you hear us now?
Sergei: Yes, I can
Sergei: But not always
Michael: It's 9.00 am in NY.
Michael: Vance hangs out on the Internet all day at work. True Vance?
Vance: true
Vance: all day
Vance: But I'm not in America
Michael: Bye Paulo.
Vance: Nice to see everyone
Michael: Ich auch nicht.
Sergei: Bye!
Vance: ich auch
Michael: Maggi and Paulos are speaking Italian and German.
Maggi: ciao
Michael: I'll be here!
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Vance: That's a BETTER place to be
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Michael: Good night everyone! I'm going to have an early night.
Sergei: Good night!
Michael: Beer on the balcony as usual for Vance! Nice.
Michael: Enjoy it Vance. One day I'll do it with you!
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Sergei: It was nice to talk to you all. Bye .
Maggi: Bye Sergei
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Michael: Bye - I'm really am going this time. Bye!
Vance: (waits politely for Michael to leave)
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