h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well, speaking of writing in spanish, my paper(the one i wrote earlier, not the one i wrote last night which was in english and, i feel, kicked major ass) got a pretty dismal C-. but it was more or less expected, didn't think i'd get away with a decent grade after such a big choke. i haven't looked over all the critiques yet and i don't know if i ever will.. so i don't think it was the language so much as just the lack of an argument and just generally being a very bad paper. which it might have been regardless of what language it was in. but the teacher still likes me apparently since she let me have a copy of one of the videos i watched in my research and really enjoyed, which is like a christmas present and makes me feel quite happy. plus the fact that i feel like i wrote a pretty good paper last night (even though it kept me up til around 5 am) is some consolation, and hopefully it'll help my grade as well. so i'm not too down about it.
yes, i really should experiment with the short story format. all my writing needs work really. i haven't had any criticism of any of it in ages. well, except my academic writing obviously. and not being accountable to any kind of audience i fear my work will just become ever more decadent and well, bad. it's kind of hard to find a forum though. it seems virtually impossible to get into a creative writing class, which is what i probably need.
back on the subject of languages, speaking and listening are really the most important skills, i think. they allow you to interact with people, whereas reading and writing allow you to interact with words. y'know? me, i communicate better in writing regardless of language. i can understand pretty well, i think, but i don't get too many opportunities to speak it. my grandpa is a fluent speaker but the fact that he's losing his hearing and i am a soft-spoken sort makes it a little difficult to practice with him. he and his brothers essentially grew up in el salvador, their parents were missionaries. so that's part of where the interest comes from, sort of a family tradition.
i am tiiired. i got up early this morning despite having been up all night so i could go shopping on magazine st. with my friend. i don't really feel too sleep deprived but basically we did so much walking, i'm pooped. but i had a good time. the only thing i have left to do is deliver some gifts to my aunt and pack. unfortunately i have to catch a shuttle to the airport at 4.15 am tomorrow! yeesh... but i'll manage.
...oh yeah...SAT's.. it seems awfully inhumane to put that much pressure on 7 and 11 year olds! is this a recent reform? what's the point? i think in this country they're considering implementing a mandatory exam just to graduate from highschool, i can't say i'm in favor of that either.

Yes, I would agree that it's a bit much to put so much pressure onto kids as young as seven and eleven. Incidentally, it also puts a lot of (I think unnecessary) pressure on the teachers, as they have to get the kids through the things and do all the admin for them (even marking them). Schools in the UK don't have a seperate admin board - the teachers have to do it all. This means that they often have quite a torrid workload - one of the reasons why there's a teacher shortage in the UK.

The tests for seven year olds have been around for quite a while now: my cousin was in the first year to take them and she's now nineteen! The tests for eleven and fourteen year olds came in later, I don't know exactly when. As for what the point of all this stressful testing is, I don't know. In fact even the teachers don't know. Only the Government seems to know in fact, and so far they haven't been telling.

I wouldn't worry about your writing becoming 'decadent' - as you probably already know, nearly all writers worry about it, especially young ones. Even if it's true (which I doubt), a lot of writers don't sort out that problem until they've starting getting published. And sometimes it can be a positive feature - have you read 'Frankenstein'? You could always experiment with writing for an audience more specifically, i.e. making yourself more accountable to your audience. And there's bound to be creative writing forums on the web, and perhaps even courses. I wouldn't worry too much about putting stuff on the web - if you write under a psuedonym, then no one will know it's you anyway. If you're worried about copyright or whatever you could see if it's possible to join a forum/course where you can remove your work from the site if you want to. But I think it's also nice to write exactly how you want just for yourself sometimes, too. At least you're writing, which is more than I'm doing at the moment!

Your Grandpa sounds like he's had a fascinating life (maybe you could write a biography of his childhood in El Salvador). Were his parents American or did they come from Europe or wherever and then he migrated to the US?

I hope you had a good journey home. I've still got to get packed ready for flying back on Saturday. Have you done all your Christmas shopping? I did most of mine while I was in Vietnam, actually, as obviously it's a lot cheaper than Europe, plus I thought I could then give people something interesting and exotic. I've bought (and given out) presents for my best friends here in Germany, including to my Czech friend Teri, whose grant from the EU only ran until Christmas so she's gone home for good. However, she's going to try and come back in for a while in January, and me and my American friend Graham are going to visit her in Prague during our looong Easter break.

I've still got to buy pressies for my boyfriend, though. I'm going to wait until I'm back in the UK and then go shopping, full of imagination and determined to get him something good!

Here's a little present from me: . We always eat it at Christmas in Britain; check out this guide entry to find out about it: A660836.

Well, better go and start my packing.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
ttyl, Liz

i would really doubt that the government even knows the point of the testing. governments just settle on things and then forget about them until someone tries to change it, by then it's tradition. or something. i don't know.
that's good writing advice. you seem to have a pretty good perspective on it, you'd probably be successful if you did some of your own.
not too much going on here. i got home wednesday, have been doing christmassy things and hanging out with parents and stuff. we opened our presents last night since we're going to arizona tomorrow morning, somehow a nice long car trip sounds nice. we'll see how i feel 5 hours into it... but i have a bunch of new cd's to listen to at least. got the Dead Man soundtrack which i expect to be sublimely awesome, also got 2 elliot smith cd's..and i forget what else. lots of books i'll never get time to read...arg...well, maybe this summer. i'm looking forward to getting back from AZ and doing some serious hanging out.
i've got 2 gifts i have to wrap for tonight... feels like i haven't gotten too much rest since i've been home. odd. but being in winslow i'll undoubtedly get to sit around a lot. but i'll have to stop swearing and i'll have to hide Satanic Verses from my grandma because i don't want to explain it to her... poor grandma... she's in denial about the fact that my mother is an atheist and i'm agnostic at best.. well, i'd better run along
have a lovely holiday, i'll probably be out of contact til next week.

Hi Jane

You know, I'm thinking I may have another go at this writing lark, esp seeing as I don't have to take any exams etc this year and so I can relax a bit and have quite a lot of free time. I may just have a go at writing bits of ideas as they come to me at first, rather than sitting down to write a whole piece.

Hope you have a great time in AZ. Hope you had a good journey there, too. I'm not very good at traveling in cars - it tends to make me unless I take medication against it.

I'm at my parents in the UK now; I got back yesterday. I'm going to have to go and buy my boyfriend's Christmas presents today - I still don't have a clue what to get him! I've also still got to wrap all my presents for my family. I bought them while I was in Vietnam, so everyone's going to get something a bit out of the ordinary this year. My Dad put up the Christmas decorations yesterday, so we're getting well into the Christmas spirit. After Christmas Day I'll be going visiting relatives and then it'll be New Year, so I may not be in contact for the next week or so.

Have fun this holiday season and get in touch again when you can!
Yours,
Liz

ah, back home and comfortably watching indiana jones movies on tv...
a bit tired from a long, boring day of sleeping and listening to music and watching the landscape rush by... i really don't know why that should be so exhausting but it is. i'm lucky enough not to have any significant problems with motion sickness.
the vacation was pretty fun. played handbells with my aunts at church, also got jumped on by some adorable little corgi puppies... i have an aunt who has around 11 dogs, many of whom are quite large(except for the corgis, which are small in case you're not familiar with the breed). one of them is in fact a st. bernard. it's kind of ridiculous. but we did little other than hang around. i got a handmade hooded cloak fit to wear to some kind of middle earth party, unfortunately i don't go to too many of those. it's very dramatic and beautiful though... i'll find some occasion to wear it.
i'll be struggling to finish off this damn book of mine, it's really time i wrapped it up. i've been writing it so long that a lot of what i wrote some 2 or 3 years ago is starting to look so bad i almost have to write it all over... oh well.
hope you're having a nice vacation. i'm off to plop down in bed and watch some tv.

Hi Jane - I'm back again! Yep, my vacation's over and I've returned to Germany. I had a really good vacation too. It was great to be back in England again, to eat nice food and to watch some decent TV (German TV has the ominous virtue of being completely unwatchable). I also got to see all my relatives and even managed to meet up with my old High School friends in Oxford. One of my friends had her little sister Rachel with her, who's nine, so we went to 'BK's (Rachel wouldn't go to 'McDonald's because she says it's too babyish!) and then went ice skating. Have you ever been ice skating? I hadn't been in years but I somehow still remembered how to do it and had a great time (and didn't fall over once!).

By the way, everyone in Britain - no make that everyone in *Europe* - knows what a corgi is, as they're the Queen's favorite breed of dog and she takes them everywhere with her. Apparently the butlers don't like them much because they have a habit of nipping their ankles! I've never seen a St Bernard in real life, though I have seen a Great Dane, which are roughly the same size. I find them a bit scary, even if they are fairly placid by nature. Your Aunt must be very brave to have a dog that's bigger than her living in her house.

Any luck finishing your book? What's it about? I've started practising my writing again, by the way - just bits here and there. I don't feel confident enough yet to tackle writing a whole novel, so I'm mostly just writing prose - ie bits of short stories that I know I can grapple with. Have you finished reading 'Satanic Verses'? I'm reading 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen at the moment; now I've got into it I'm really enjoying it. However, after I've finished this book I think I'll have to concentrate on reading stuff for my courses. One thing's for sure though, I'll never be short of something to read, because I'm a total shopaholic when it comes to buying books - I spent $60 on them yesterday! But that is absolutely the last time I'm doing that this term (oh how many times have I said that?). One book I would recommend you to read is 'Tipping the Velvet' by Sarah Waters. It's a saucy adventure thru the world of Victorian lesbian culture and the culture of the Music Hall at that time, and is excellently written.

Are you back at school yet? School resumed for me here this Monday just gone.

Take care and get in touch again soon!
ttyl, Lizzy

ah, Tipping the Velvet does sound like an interesting book. i'm all in favor of saucy victorian lesbians. i did finish the Satanic Verses, while in Arizona. since then i've shot through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (hunter s. thompson) and The Liar(stephen fry) which i just finished this morning. well, it felt pretty quick to me, considering the Satanic Verses took so very long. i'm reading A Clockwork Orange now which is also fairly short. i've kind of resolved to spend my empty, loose-ends time reading rather than playing games in the internet or just desperately trying to numb my mind by staring into one screen or other... we'll see if i live up to that resolution, along with the other one to stop eating french fries, which i believe is the only thing keeping me from rapid weight loss. i could sustain some rapid weight loss, i've got plenty to spare. it's kind of tricky eating worthwhile food on campus though. i don't want to become malnourished or anything.
so yes, i am back at school. classes just started today. i was really kind of depressed about leaving home since i find my college life so dull and lonely and my best friends are at home, one of whom i'm madly in love with... but so far i'm doing okay at getting back into the swing.
i think somewhere in my mind i was aware of the queen and her corgis... they can be bastards but they're so cute. cuter than st. bernards anyway. i kind of like great danes, they're pretty. i've never had too much fear of dogs. we had a rottweiler next door once, who was always jumping over the fence and coming over into our yard, but she was not at all mean. little toy dogs are annoying though.
my book is not finished but i am near the end. it's been slow lately. it's about a guy who's kind of like me and i've recently decided that it stems from my being surrounded by artists and musicians in highschool but feeling like an outsider. the actual plot revolves around him having an affair with an older married woman and then falling in love with her son... but that outsider thing is in there too. i don't know. there are days when i think it's good, and there are days when i wonder what i was thinking. but i am committed to it.
well, i'm hungry now so i might just go buy some snack food to get me by until dinner. oh yeah: i've never been ice skating but i'm glad you had a good time, and a good vacation. you seem to be fine returning to germany too, do you feel pretty much at home both places?

Hi Jane

Glad to hear you had a good Christmas. How are you finding reading 'A Clockwork Orange'? I had a go at reading it once and gave up pretty quickly, as I got totally lost - I couldn't understand anything because it's written in 'nyadsat'. Have you seen the film? I think it's brilliant. I really like Stanley Kubrick's films. I haven't seen 'Barry Lyndon' yet but really would like to. When I get back to England I'll have to hunt for it in the library.

I made the same New Year's Resolution as last year: to try and still be with my boyfriend Mike by New Year 2004 (aw). I think you are a saint to try and stop eating french fries. They are one of my absolute *favorite* foods. I'm quite lucky I suppose in that I can eat as much as I like and whatever I like, since I've got so skinny. I now weigh ca. 101lb. I should really try and put a bit more on (I've lost 2lb since coming to Germany), but most German food is so unpalatable that it doesn't seem very likely.

Your book sounds fantastic - I hope you manage to write it to the end! Even if you're not very happy with it, it's worth finishing so that you have a record of it, then perhaps in a few years when you're older, wiser and your writing has improved you can write another draft. I hope you're not too lonely at college. It can get a bit lonely for me here in Germany too, actually, as German people tend to be quite difficult to make friends with. They tend to be very hard work (OK, us Brits are also s**t at expressing our feelings but at least we're responsive to people in social situations!) and it's usually very disheartening because they're so humorless. My best friends here are Graham, who's American, and Laura, who's British. Teri was from the Czech Republic but she's gone home now.

So no, I don't really feel very at home in Germany at all. I think now is not the best time to visit, as the economy has all but crashed and so there is a general air of loss of confidence and being miserable. It reminds me a bit of what the UK was like in the early nineties. Have you thought about doing a year abroad, perhaps in a Spanish-speaking country? I would recommend it. Don't be put off by the fact that I'm not very positive about it because it's still a tremendous experience. You learn a lot and get to meet people from all around the world. I think that Spanish people are friendlier and less obsessed with rules as well - plus it has sunshine, which is always a good thing. Next time I do this sort of thing though I think I'll cop out and do it in an English-speaking country. I can't wait to visit the US.

ttyl, Lizzy

well, i must give you credit for at least seeming more positive than i about leaving home for the school environment.. shows good coping skills. i just whine and whine.
i made friends with a german exchange student once, i thought he was quite nice. but i'm pretty repressed with my feelings, i don't think i can even attribute that to culture too much... i think i've been to germany but i was quite little at the time and don't remember much.
hrm. i don't think i can really finish this message as i have to run off to latin american history class... ho hum. i do have a deviant behavior class which i'm kind of gleeful about, and it's a lecture so no papers!
time to run along. i'll check back later.

ah. back from class and a nice lunch.
i actually don't have much trouble with A Clockwork Orange... it's true that only slightly more than half of the words are in plain english... but i don't have much trouble filling in the blanks. i'm getting through it fairly fast, but spending a lot of time reading these past few days.
so does mike live in england or is he in germany with you? sorry if i simply failed to pick that up... that's a good resolution, i hope you succeed. being in love with a guy in nebraska and all, i'd like to think long-distance relationships can work.
i never really wanted to do a semester/year abroad. i don't know why... i guess i don't like the idea of having to adjust to a new country after just spending a year adjusting to a new city blah blah...
i feel like taking a nap before french...

Hi Jane

Well, I was always very positive about leaving home anyway - in fact I couldn't leave fast enough! I moved about 200 miles away from where I grew up in Oxford to Leeds in the north of England. I realize that compared to moving from Nebraska to New Orleans it's like no distance, but in the UK it's a very long way away - in fact I think I was one of the people who moved furthest away from home from all the students in my year at High School. In Britain it's much more the rule than the exception to move away from home to study when you're 18 or 19 - it's seen as the time to make the break. However that's changing because going to college has recently become very expensive (it used to be free, in that the State *gave* every student a grant ). Accomadation is also extremely expensive in the UK, especially in the south-east, so many students who move away from home to go to college end up having to come back home again once they graduate. Not me though - not unless I'm starving, or something almost as drastic. I value my independence too much!

Mike's still in England, studying for his math degree at Leeds Uni. I know quite a lot of people who are or have been in long-distance relationships and it seems to me that if you both want it to work, it will work. If it doesn't work out I think it usually has more to do with growing up and moving on than with distance - but then I live in England, where distances are nothing like as large as they can be in the US.

Deviant behavior class, eh? That sounds very interesting, what's it about? Which subject does it come under? I bet the practicals in that class are fun, hehehe... How do you find lectures in general? I must say I much prefer seminars - with lectures I tend to fall asleep halfway thru!

Take care, ttyl, Lizzy

i'm hoping my roommate will leave and get out of the way so i can take a shower... it's already almost 3 for god's sake. i have no idea what i'm going to do today, i thought i'd like to go spend a gift certificate but if i wait much longer... anyway
deviant behavior is a sociology class, deals with homicide, people with violent natures and disorders, i dunno... we've only met once so far. we also will discuss stuff like homosexuality and whether it should be considered deviant i guess. the teacher seems like liberal so i'm not too worried...it'll be interesting what the students think. it looks like it'll be lecture and discussion. i have a hard time staying awake in lectures at times but i also hate having to do big projects so lecture classes where all you do is read, take notes and take exams is certainly easier. not that i pick classes exclusively based on how easy they look..
as for leaving home, i've always been a homebody i get along with my parents really well, but i don't make a lot of friends. the ones i have i'm pretty close to so it's sad to leave them. and lincoln is just an easy place. i knew i had to get out though and experience something else. not everybody can afford college here either, i don't know how many people from my highschool left lincoln. when i go back i still see a lot of people i know so... plus UNL is not a bad school, certainly cheaper than going away.
well, i think it's about time i got up and faced the day.

Hi Jane

Hope you had a good weekend. Mine was fairly quiet. I went into town on Saturday and last night I stayed in and watched movies with Graham. We watched two: the first one was a really wierd German movie all about marijuana so I must say it got quite boring rather fast. The other was 'Gosford Park' - have you seen it? It's a murder mystery set in a country house in England and it mainly focusses on the lifestyles of those 'above and below stairs' - ie the snotty rich people and the servants. It's got lots of famous British actors in it (see how many you recognize! ) including Stephen Fry, who plays the bumbling police inspector.

What's your living arrangements at college, then? I ended up living in dorms for both my freshman and sophomore years at Leeds. This is quite unusual because normally after your freshman year you have to find something in the private sector. However in both cases I had my own bedroom and then shared kitchen and bathroom facilities with four other people. Sometimes people have to share a bedroom but it's not very common any more. Here in Germany I have my very own appartment with bedroom, kitchen and hall - I share my bathroom with my neighbor next door. Graham lives in a shared appartment much like the ones I've lived in at Leeds. When I go back to Leeds for my senior year I'll probably live in a shared house where I'll have my own bedroom too. I don't know how much European history you've done, but do you know those very tall red brick terrace houses that factory workers in England lived in in the 19th century? Well, quite a lot of them still exist and it'll most probably be a house like this that I'll move into in Sept/Oct (complete with pre-war electric wiring! - just kidding, though it wouldn't surprise me ). It'll be a massive jolt to the system, as my appartment here is the nicest place I've ever lived - even better than my parents' house!

I think it's great that you get on with your parents so well. I get on with my parents fine now but while I lived at home things could get a bit strained as I was a wilful little wotsit and also there was a major personality clash btw me and my mom. Plus the people in the area I grew up weren't very nice, to put it mildly. I've still got a couple of friends back there but we've actually got on a lot better since I went to college. I don't tend to make a lot of friends, either - usually just a few good ones. The rest are all just 'acquaintences' who I say hi and talk to when I see them. I have a lot of them in Leeds because it's such a friendly University. Do you think you'll move back to Lincoln when you've finished college? I think once I've finished at Leeds it'll be time to move on, if just for a while. I think I'm probably going to do a post-grad qualification in primary school teaching, which will take one year, probably in Sheffield or Liverpool. Sheffield is right next door to Leeds (but a much safer city to live in!) and Liverpool is about 60-90 mins drive away, on the coast. It's a big port and culturally a very unique part of England.

Yes, it will be interesting to see what students think in 'Deviant Behavior'. Such classes are always something of an eye-opener - it's always a bit of a shock when you find that that nice person you always talk to before class is of the opinion that all homosexuals are children of Satan! (twisted British humor, sorry ).

Take care. ttyl, Lizzy

yeah, i did see gosford park when it came out last year... how could i miss it? all those british actors, stephen fry most of all... but i don't know, i kind of made a bad choice to go the night i did. i'd been in a meditation seminar all day and we went at like 10 at night and well... it kind of made us sleepy. i was just sitting waiting for Stephen to appear. he was cute, of course. plus we were waiting for the murder to happen which also seemed to take forever.
i've lived in a dorm both years so far, which i kind of dislike, though i'm fairly used to it now. last year it was a really dumpy building too. most of us have to share rooms, but next year since i'll be a junior i'll be high in the running for a single. i doubt i'll be moving off campus anytime soon as housing is part of my scholarship. last year though, my roommate went home after first semester and i never got another one so it was quite nice. there was a great view too, which i appreciate now that i no longer have one at all, though i am in a nicer building. but we're on the first floor and can't really open our blinds since there are people walking around right out there all the time. nothing to see but the cafeteria across the street either. sigh. but it's not a bad room. we share a bathroom with 2 other girls, it's like a 'suite'. though actually one of the girls next door left, another was supposed to move in but she hasn't shown up yet.
i'd like to get a place in NO and stay, i guess, after college. i don't think it's the healthiest place to live so i'll probably end up... i don't know where. i don't plan on returning to lincoln permanently either. i always kind of liked st. paul, minnesota. my parents have actually talked about moving there as well. but who knows what'll happen? i just miss having a real home, i get bored with living in one room.
i'm all jealous of you.

Hi Jane

Yeah, that is one minor criticism about 'Gosford Park': the murder seems to take forever to take place. But then I suppose they use the time before to introduce and develop the characters and show the 'upstairs-downstairs' way of life. I also got very confused as to who each of the servants served, in spite of them being called by the names of their employers. But it didn't really seem to matter.

Have you been to St Paul, then? I've always been interested in Minnesota because apparently it's known for being a very liberal, laid-back place. It looks cool from the pictures I've seen of it on the internet, too. I was actually seriously considering coming to study in the US but then I realized it could cost anything up to $60,000 and I thought uh-uh, study somewhere else for free first and *then* go to the States! I would have to borrow all that money too and since I've been doing my utmost to dodge debt as an under-grad (mainly thanks to my parents), I'd really like to stay out of it. Mike is thinking about going to study in Hawaii or California and if he chooses the latter (and we're still together, ahem), I'm going with him, no matter what!!! Hawaii looks like a cool place but it's a series of islands in the middle of nowhere and since I was born on an island, I don't really have any wish to emigrate to another one!

I'm really surprised that they house girls on the first floor - in England they hardly ever do because of the idea that girls are more likely to be attacked (though I'm not so convinced of that argument myself ). I think for me my home is more a state of mind rather than what it's like, though I do understand what you mean about dorms. I find them rather generic places: OK so the shared houses in Leeds may be sh*te, but they do tend to have a much more homely feel to them. I think I always felt the dorms I lived in were home though because I never felt at home in Oxford, as the people there made me feel so unwelcome. I think that might have been different if I'd actually lived *in* the city though, as the village where I grew up just outside of it was extremely hick.

Anyway, I hope things aren't too bad for you in NO. What was the meditiation class like? It sounds really interesting - I wish they offered classes like that at my college! Have you finished your book yet? Anything planned for the weekend? As you may or may not know I'm off to Copenhagen, so I'll be away from h2g2 from Thurs-Sun.

Take care!
ttyl, Lizzy

weekend seems kind of far off yet. i can't believe it's only tuesday, as i keep saying to myself.. i think we might have monday off or something, martin luther king jr. day. maybe not this monday but it's coming up. i guess yesterday was a long day since i got up at 4.20 in the morning to be on the radio for an hour, then went back to bed... i don't know.. and i am dead tired today.
i've never heard of such a thing as keeping girls off the first floor for their protection... sure they're more likely to be attacked than a guy since most attackers are guys and girls are supposed to be weak n' stuff. but that doesn't mean it's actually likely, know what i mean?
i guess my complaint about the dorm is there's no space or privacy... i can cope with that, i'd just be happier if i had a room to myself, and maybe a kitchen and a living room and all that. front porch too. and a cat. though i know a girl who has or had a cat in her dorm room, a big fat one too. it's not allowed or anything but she got away with it or was getting away with it at the time.
i have been to st. paul. my mom actually lived there for a couple years, she has a government job and they had some big stupid restructuring thing where her job got moved and she decided to go... it was kind of odd...we visited a lot and she had a nice little apartment. 7 hours away seems like nothing compared to where i am now, a two days' drive from home. but she got to move back eventually, though she did like st. paul and so did my dad and i. it's kind of where i envision my book taking place, incidentally. i haven't been back in years, i guess i have no reason to go now..
i was in hawaii once, but i spent most of my time in the hotel room watching mtv because we didn't have cable at home... but as i remember it was pretty. i dont' think i've ever been to california. it's one of the few states i haven't visited. i'm not really that interested in it for some reason.
tulane has a meditation club... at least they used to, i haven't gone to a meeting this year and i think the guy who used to facilitate it or whatever must have graduated or moved on... but it was something i did last year and haven't come back to for some reason. there were two day-long seminars i went to where there was also yoga and like sushi for lunch, quite fun. though sitting still for hours was a little tough to do, sometimes i think i might have overstressed my tailbone from sitting so long without moving... it's funny how i manage to injure myself doing stuff like meditating and skinny dipping..
well, i'm tired and sickly, think i'll lie down for a bit. have a nice time in copenhagen, when you go..

Hi My name is nick and i looked through your conversation and i thought i was good iam 17 and write back for more infoprmation about me
thanks nick

Hi Nick

Well, I already have a boyfriend, so sorry mate. Have you tried Lonely Hearts websites?

Cheerio,
Liz

Hi Jane

Just to say that I'm back from Copenhagen. Hope you're fine. I've set up an h2g2 e-mail account for the friends I've met on here. The address is: [email protected] Basically I've set one up so that we can carry talking, just like here, except that other people can't read it. If you don't want to give me your real e-mail, I understand, just go to 'yahoo' or 'hotmail' and create another account. Of course we can keep talking in this conversation forum, if you prefer.

Just a warning to anyone else who may come across this page...if I haven't been speaking to you in a conversation forum for a while, PLEASE don't e-mail me at this address as I won't reply. If you want to get in touch, leave me a message on my personal space.

ttyl (maybe from my new h2g2 e-mail account! )
Lizzy

hi
that is probably a good idea, maybe i'll drop you a line there.