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Wondering what to do
this summer
Maggie chats with Vance on ICQ |
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On August 9, 2001, Maggie found Vance on ICQ:
94452752: (9:09 PM) hi, Vance, r
u free? I don't understand a sentence
Vance: (9:38 PM) Hi Maggie, is that you?
Vance: (9:39 PM) Sorry, I was eating dinner
Maggie: (9:41 PM) yes, of couse me, but not the Maggi teacher. ha ha
it doesn't matter, could you help me please, I don't understand a
sentense
Vance: (9:42 PM) Sure, what can I do for you?
Maggie: (9:44 PM) ok , here is it
" If you small? what the
rock is cookin' "
that's a sentense a friend asked me
Vance: (9:45 PM) makes no sense. Is is 'small' (little) or 'smell' (with
the nose)?
Vance: (9:45 PM) cookin' should mean 'cooking'
Vance: (9:46 PM) Can you give me any context?
Maggie: (9:47 PM) ok, I will ask her, please wait for a little
while
Vance: (9:47 PM) ok
Maggie: (9:50 PM) well, she said she didn't know, it's a question
from the other person, well, forget it, thx, but there is another one
Vance: (9:50 PM) ok
Maggie: (9:54 PM) I want to know when people get into trouble, what
will they say, like, "shitt" "damn it" .....some words like "shit" is not very
polite, but it's ok, I just want to know
Vance: (9:55 PM) Well, that's what we say. It's becoming more accepted
now, but I wouldn't use shit with people I'm trying to impress. Damn it is more
acceptable.
Vance: (9:57 PM) 'oh crap' is a slightly more acceptable way of saying
'shit' (means the same thing) and you might get away with it at a job interview
- but these words are best avoided in social situations where you could lose
points. They're ok with close frineds.
Maggie: (9:57 PM) i c. so are there any similar words that you can
tell me?
Vance: (9:59 PM) People say 'fuck' which means sexual intercourse, but
you often hear it in movies
Vance: (10:00 PM) If you want to be polite say 'darn' instead of
'damn'
Vance: (10:00 PM) oh, btw, are you able to reach the webheads homestead
site these days?
Maggie: (10:02 PM) yes, many boys say "fuck" usually, which makes me
feel bad about them. haha
I guess "damn" is easy to pronounce than
"darn"
I can, the last e-mail I get is from Michael, this Monday
Vance: (10:03 PM) I mean can you get the website
Vance: (10:04 PM) http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm
I'm
asking because Moral can't get it.
Maggie: (10:04 PM) I dont' know , I haven't got to the website for a
long time, just reading e-mails
Vance: (10:05 PM) Can you try it now?
Maggie: (10:06 PM) I can open it,
Vance: (10:06 PM) I need to know the situation in China. I've moved from
Geocities to Tripod to Homestead trying to stay ahead of the Internet censors
in China. OK, that's good news. Thanks.
Vance: (10:09 PM) How is college? How are your parents and their
store?
Maggie: (10:10 PM) maybe just some problems of Moral's
ISP,
sometimes I also can open some websites which I usually use
Vance: (10:11 PM) can't open them? Yeah, maybe. Anyway I'm relieved that
you can.
Maggie: (10:13 PM) oh, college is just ok, but I don't know, I have
not much thing to do this summer, and can't find a part time job, you know,
it's pretty difficult to find a job here, then I thought a lot, I don't know
why, but now I think university is not a big deal to me
Vance: (10:15 PM) Really? Why not? I tell my son that university is the
most important thing to finish right now.
Maggie: (10:18 PM) oh, don't worry, of course I won't leave school,
but when I talk to friends, I just don't know what's important to me right now,
seems that I just tried my best to pass the college entrance examinations like
the other people of the same age, but I didn't know what I wanted to do before
that, just follow the others
Vance: (10:19 PM) Are you studying anything in particular? Or have any
teachers inspired you more than others?
Maggie: (10:21 PM) not the last term,
Vance: (10:21 PM) So you don't think the quality of education is very
good there?
Maggie: (10:33 PM) sorry, something wrong of the net, I connect
again
Vance: (10:33 PM) Have you been back to the orphanage? Or anything like
that?
Maggie: (10:34 PM) I think the quality is not bad, just maybe I
haven't found the target of my life now
Vance: (10:35 PM) That happens too. It's normal. You will find it.
Maggie: (10:36 PM) I haven't been back to, because the road was being
fixed so we can't get there within 3 hours by car, that is 6 hours by car once
including coming and going, so they stopped it
Vance: (10:37 PM) poor orphans
Maggie: (10:38 PM) so I find that this summer vacation is hard to
spend, have no homework as I was in highschool, no jobs, I just take care of
the store sometimes, and I have been doing gym every afternoon. But the ticket
is over now. I don't know what to do next,
Vance: (10:40 PM) Read? Start a project? A webpage for example? Take a
train ride, or a boat ride up the Yangtzee?
Maggie: (10:42 PM) I plan to go to Yunan province, that's a good
place to visit, I know there are hostellings in the cities I want to go, but my
mum doesn't allow me to go alone
Vance: (10:44 PM) You can't find anyone to go with you?
Maggie: (10:48 PM) I can't now, everyone has already been to
somewhere this summer , and I don't want to go with someone I have no topics to
talk with, and I think it's great to go alone...
Vance: (10:52 PM) I think so too. If I were your parent I would
encourage you to go.
Maggie: (10:52 PM) but it's easy to understand their thoughts, they
think it's dangerous
Vance: (10:53 PM) What would happen if you just went and didn't tell
them, or called them from there?
Maggie: (10:56 PM) haha, my parents would be angry to hear that. I
can't do that, first , I think if I insiste , maybe my mum would let me go,
second, I don't think my mum can accept if I go without telling her, third is
the most important, it will cost RMB2000 or more, I have no momey : ) because
it's pretty far from here...
Vance: (10:59 PM) Maybe next year my family should come there and we can
pay your bus fare if you'll get us into cheap accommodations. I'd like to go
see Moral in Kunming. I have many plans for many
summers, but that would be one of them. I can get around in China but I know
it's easier if you can speak the language.
Maggie: (11:01 PM) really?
wait, Moral is in Kunming, haha, I
will say more things about this trip to my mum untill she let me go, then I can
visit Moral. haha
Vance: (11:02 PM) Yeah, I would like to go to Kunming. Is it feasible to
go from Hong Kong to where you are and then to Kunming?
Maggie: (11:03 PM) yes, I think you should travel in China, that's a
really good idea, of course you should go as many places as you can, and if I
haven't been to the places which you want to go then maybe I can go with you,
difinitely my mum would allow me to go with you
Maggie: (11:05 PM) It's pretty easy to come here from Hongkong, it takes
about 2 hours or a little longer, then you can go to Kunming , it's won't be
very hard, maybe I can help you to check the ticket for you at that time
Maggie: (11:10 PM) there are many places you should visit in China,
haha, I find one more excuse to persuade mum to let me go, It is , "see,
foreigners come to visit China from so far away, shoudn't I go to travel my own
country as a Chinese?" haha
Vance: (11:14 PM) I'll suggest this to my family. China is a great place
to visit. I've been there several times. But I have faced language problems,
and if I could help you travel in the summer then you could help me
Maggie: (11:17 PM) no, you don't have to pay for me of course, but it
will really be my pleasure if I can help you, : ) haha, now I have a little
target now, that is to practice my spoken English first, otherwise I will not
be able to help you with my poor English if you come
Vance: (11:19 PM) Right now it's just an idea, but I don't think I want
to go to the USA next summer. Of course one problem in China this time of year
is rain. When do you get your holidays?
Maggie: (11:21 PM) not really, it depends where you want to go, I
guess, most of the weather would be fine to travel, I have holidays from about
6th July to the end of Agugust
Vance: (11:23 PM) I'll get just a few weeks. So, we can think about it,
and check the weather reports
Maggie: (11:24 PM) yes, hope it work
Vance: (11:26 PM) Unfortunately I'm never bored. I' working on web pages
now, and looking up a friend's diving record so I can take him for his advanced
dive certification tomorrow. It's almost midnight but I have too much to do
Maggie: (11:28 PM) oh, then we should end our talk tonight, it's also
late here, I should have gone to bed, but I want to find some information about
train now, well, thanks for talking to me tonight, hope to tell you my good
news later, good night
Vance: (11:36 PM) ok, hope you find something interesting to do. Write
us at Webheads if you do. Take care now, and don't use any of those bad words I
taught you earlier.
Maggie: (11:38 PM) ok, thank you. : )
you'd better go to bed
early, otherwise you will get older easily
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