ch0feb13

Chat with student MaggiE from China
and teachers Maggi and Vance

February 13, 2000

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Members of room: Anonymous91 Anonymous14

You have changed your name to Vance.

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<Vance> who was anon 14?

Anonymous54 has joined the chat room.

<Anonymous54> hi.Maggie is here

<Anonymous54> what's going on?

<Vance> Oh, hi, I didn't see you there

<Vance> ok

<Vance> I was hiding under this toadstool here

<Anonymous54> well.r u talking now

<Vance> no i m not

<Vance> However, it was fun talking in French for a while

<Anonymous54> I wait for a long time

<Anonymous54> Did u talk with Michael?

<Vance> MaggiEEEE I thought you were Maggi

<Vance> See, I'm confused

<Vance> I'm talking ot Maggi on ICQ

<Vance> I'll invite her here

<Anonymous54> ok

<Vance> You're on ICQ aren't you?

<Anonymous54> no

<Vance> Oh ok. I saw Maggi online, and I saw Maggie in the chat

room

<Vance> and I thought you were the same

<Vance> But no matter. Now you are here.

<Vance> And Maggi is on her way

<Anonymous54> I am waitting.

<Anonymous54> Sorry ,I don't use ICQ

<Vance> And where are you exactly?

<Anonymous54> you mean ?

<Anonymous54> I am at home

Anonymous83 has joined the chat room.

<Vance> I just looked up your web page. You say you are in the

south of China

Anonymous83 is now known as Mad.

<Mad> Hi

<Anonymous54> hi

<Vance> MAD is Margaret Ann Doty, also known as Maggi

<Anonymous54> This is Maggieeeee

<Mad> Maggie right?

<Anonymous54> I am in a small city near Hong Kong

<Mad> there is a small city near Hong Kong?

<Vance> I've been to Quangchou, but that's not a small city

<Anonymous54> I haven't been there before.

<Vance> You can change your name if you like.

<Anonymous54> how?

<Vance> You write MAGGIE in the name space and click

"Change"

Anonymous54 is now known as Maggie.

<Mad> good girl

<Maggie> OK I did it.

<Vance> Congratulations!

<Maggie> thanks

<Mad> Nice to meet you Maggie!

<Maggie> Where r u Vance?

<Vance> I see Kay online too. I'll let her know where we are.

<Maggie> Same to meet u too

<Vance> I'm in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

<Vance> I'm an American working at a language school here.

<Maggie> cool..

<Vance> (Kay left :-(

<Mad> happens

<Vance> What do you do, Maggie? Student? Worker?

<Maggie> Student

<Maggie> I will go to university this year

<Vance> Which university will you go to?

<Maggie> I want to be a doctor...or I don't know

<Mad> what kind of doctor?

<Maggie> Maybe the doctors help women to born their babies

<Mad> that would be a very rewarding job...

<Vance> A doctor who helps women have babies ...

<Mad> there is no wonder better than a baby being born

<Maggie> Is it?

<Mad> the technical term is gynocologist....:-)

<Mad> I know...I haqd one

<Vance> or midwife ... a lot of them here ..

<Maggie> woo

<Mad> I only had midwives..

<Maggie> what 's midwies?

<Vance> A midwife isn't a gynecologist ...

<Vance> A midwife is someone who specializes in being present

at the birth

<Mad> it is usually a woman who helps.

<Mad> she is not trained to be a doctor

<Maggie> I see...Gynecologist

<Mad> but I like them better

<Vance> A gynecologist is more an internal specialist, isn't he /

she?

<Mad> well...that depends

<Vance> A midwife wouldn't be able to solve problems internally,

would she?

<Mad> it is for the overall care of the female

<Maggie> well .Maggi u have a kid?

<Vance> We both have kids

<Mad> yes...my son is 17 now

<Vance> mine are 15 and 21

<Mad> Vance has two...but he didn't have them!

<Maggie> why did u say that?

<Mad> men don't have babies

<Vance> She means I didn't give birth to them.

<Maggie> ok .I see

<Vance> Let's do a fill in the blank exercise!

<Vance> Here's the first problem ...

<Vance> You'll have to excuse Maggi, she

<Vance> oops

<Maggie> ok

<Vance> You'll have to excuse Maggi she's a little ....

<Mad> a little what?

<Vance> (fill in the blank)

<Maggie> what?

<Vance> Maggi and I are very good friends and we joke around a

lot

<Mad> that's the question

<Mad> LOL

<Vance> (LOL = laugh out loud)

<Mad> try crazy

<Vance> Crazy would fit.

<Maggie> I knew it yesterday

<Maggie> I meant "lol"

<Maggie> I chated yesterday.

<Mad> depends what your definition of crazy is...:-)

<Vance> cheated?

<Mad> chatted

<Mad> silly man

<Vance> You'll have to excuse Vance, he's a little (silly?)

<Vance> LOL

<Maggie> woo...

<Maggie> sometimes I don't understand what u r talking about.

<Mad> a different sense of humor...you see he is crazy toooo:-)

<Maggie> Ijust know a few words.

<Vance> I am keeping a log of this, so you can go back and read

it later.

<Vance> I can email it to you.

<Mad> don't worry Maggie

<Maggie> oh...thanks so much

<Maggie> and what's your job Maggi?

<Mad> I teach Business English in companies

<Mad> I am freelance.

<Maggie> so all of u are English teachers.

<Maggie> what's freelance?

<Vance> I taught ESL for 20 years but now I set up computers for

language learning.

<Maggie> that's a cool thing ,,,expecialy for me

<Mad> freelance means I do not have a permanant job with a

contract.

<Mad> I can teach to anyone

<Vance> A lance is a spear used by knights.

<Vance> A knight who would fight for anyone was a "free lance"

<Maggie> u know what,I told that I had some English teachers in

internet.They are surprised

<Mad> So, you think I stab my students eh? LOL

<Vance> This would account for Maggi's sharp tongue.

<Maggie> oh,just a minute.I will be back soon

<Vance> Anyone can have teachers on the Internet!

<Vance> ok

<Mad> (looking in the mirror...hmmmm)

<Vance> mirror mirror on the wall ...

<Vance> LOUD CRACK!

<Vance> oops

<Vance> Maggi, you keep dropping offline ...

<Mad> that was your mirror that crackled...

<Vance> What's all this glass doing here?

<Mad> I had to send some msg's that hung

<Mad> lover too

<Mad> ouch

<Vance> I'm gonna have to go soon or walk home

<Mad> you like to run...:-)

<Maggie> just for keep fit?

<Vance> I'm at work. I'm wearing a tie.

<Mad> and keep his heart in shape

<Mad> take it off

<Vance> To leave here I have to walk or drive to the gate where

there's a guardpost

<Mad> so?

<Vance> From there i can get a cab

<Vance> So my colleague is leaving and I want to hitch a ride

<Mad> man...they lock you up at work eh?

<Maggie> Will u leave Vance?

<Vance> You gals can talk ...

<Vance> Hi, yes I'm going to have to leave or walk

<Mad> I have a lot of work to do too...

<Vance> Usually I drive my car but it's in the shop now.

<Maggie> u haven't got a car?

<Maggie> well.If u have a lot of work to do.Just do it

<Mad> it is being fixed

<Vance> I have a car, but it's getting a tune up

<Mad> I'm trying Maggie

<Vance> So I don't have it now

<Maggie> trying what?

<Mad> to get the work done

<Maggie> I have a bike.

<Maggie> Bike means a car to me

<Mad> it is too cold here for a bike

<Mad> but a good idea

<Vance> When I have visited China, I almost always rent a bike.

<Maggie> Cause I am still a student

<Mad> any people here ride bikes in the city

<Mad> mANY

<Maggie> u did visited China?

<Vance> I have visited China several times.

<Maggie> Really?

<Vance> I've been to Kashgar or Kashi in the western provinces

<Vance> I've been to Beijing

<Mad> learn any Chinese Vance?

<Vance> I've been to Hong Kong several times and to Quangchou

<Maggie> cool..u know what ...i havent been to Beijin

<Vance> ni how (that's about it)

<Maggie> I just been to Hong Kong..and Shanhai..and so on.

<Vance> I liked Beijing very much. Why don't you take a train up

there?

<Mad> it's a start

<Maggie> Well it takes a long time for me to go to beijin by train

<Mad> do the Chinese spell it Beijin?

<Maggie> I don't know.Just a minute

<Maggie> Sorry.It is spell Beijing.

<Maggie> I made a mistake again

<Maggie> What do u think about China?

<Vance> I really like traveling in China.

<Maggie> Oh,I am happy to hear that.

<Mad> I would love to visit...I learned Chinese in school.

<Vance> It's inexpensive and exotic

<Maggie> yes.inexpensive.

<Vance> Why did you learn Chinese, Maggi?

<Maggie> I read a book which it is talked about a girl travel in

China alone

<Maggie> And the girl is from USA

<Mad> I wanted to be one of the first journalists allowed in China.

<Maggie> Allowed?

<Vance> When was that?

<Vance> When I first visited China I took a train from Hong Kong,

and there were signs up saying "No foreigners beyond this point"

<Mad> late 60's...still the cultural revolution...China was closed.

<Vance> Now it's pretty free to travel there.

<Maggie> When?Vance?

<Vance> First time? Maybe around 1980.

<Maggie> I was not in the world in the cultural revolution.

<Vance> I was there when Tianenmen was raided (by

coincidence).

<Maggie> But my parents suffered the pain.

<Vance> I have read some very sad stories about that.

<Mad> it was confusing time for us outside China...

<Maggie> My mum said that many people were killed in her

village.

<Vance> This sounds interesting, but my colleague is leaving ...

<Mad> we never knew actually what happened...mostly just

reports from people who came out somehow

<Vance> I would like to hear more.

<Mad> bye Vance

<Maggie> Bye

<Maggie> who leave?

<Mad> Vance is going

<Maggie> r u free now?

<Vance> I've got to go. Maggie, we've been discussing China and

its policies toward macau and hong kong

<Vance> Do you have any opinions based on your parents

experiences?

<Maggie> If not u can go too.It doesn't matter

<Vance> Report to me later. There's a third guy who wants to go

<Vance> and he needs the phone line

<Vance> Maggi can keep a log if she likes

<Vance> see you guys ...

<Maggie> Well.I don't know much about it too.I also know much of

it from the history book

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Chat with student MaggiE from China and teachers Maggi and Vance

February 13, 2000

Last updated: February 13, 2000

Chat with student MaggiE from China
and teachers Maggi and Vance