From: peterw@coombs.anu.edu.au (Clare West)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Combined Report on the Australasian mini-Chat
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:27:34 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2

Hi everyone! 

The Australasian mini-Chat is almost over, and Canberra has laid on a
beauty of a storm for us - thunder, lightning and torrential downpour.
We are now sitting inside warm and dry but this was not the case a few
hours ago when we out walking in it - getting absolutely soaked.

Clare: Tell me Ross, what are you impressions of the weekend?

Ross: Hi All, I should start by pointing out that this post is written
whilst wearing no underwear......... (Now that should get you all
talking!!!!  :-) )

(BTW Rip - that's no male *or* female underwear!)

Now - to put all minds at rest - as Clare said above - we got soaked
this arvo...soaked to the skin.. if you get my drift. So I am wearing
Clare's brother's clothes just now!

Back to the original question.... (having made a tangent for all those
with dirty minds out there.....)

My impressions of the weekend.....
We have had a great time - and this sort of thing should be done more
often. Clare and I are both planning to invade the US next time anyone
mentions a chat - that is, unless Steve offers to pay our airfares
first!  :-)

Canberra, I feel, is a somewhat overly-maligned place. Its not as bad
as I expected... (but then again, I was only here for 4 days!) - but
no doubt the comapny was what made it so special..... *Clare blushes*

Clare, what was the best part of the chat???

Clare: Well that's a tough question. Its been a really great weekend
all round. I think this evenings meal was the best part. We had
Tortolenni in a zucchini and mushroom cream sauce - very tasty and so
easy to cook too. Ross provided a bottle of Taylors Hermitage (Shiraz)
which was coincidentaly produced in the Clare valley. We were tired
from our walk in the sun and rain and it was very relaxing.
Fortunately for the morality of the dinner I *was* wearing underwear.
(female underwear Rip)

So enough about today, what happened yesterday? We slept in - it was
great, my mother is one of these people who likes getting up at about
7am - I prefer 11am. Ross was in my camp tho so I've been able to
sleep in while he's been here. It'll be back up at 7am tomorrow tho
:-(. Ross is tearing the keyboard away so I'll give it to him.....

Ross: When Clare says *we* slept in - I should add it was in separate
beds, rooms, sides of the city, even!!!!  (Just to put all minds at
rest! :-) )

My favorite moment of the chat... (Clare complains about my American
spelling of favorite.... well, that's how it's spelt, isn't it?????)
One of my most special moments was arriving on Thursday night at
Clare's place. I had never met an email friend before, and as I parked
the car, this lady wandered out, looking nothing like I'd expected
Clare to look.... (Come to think of it - I'm not sure what I expected
her to look like....) and said "Well, you must be Ross." From that
moment on, we clicked. It seemed like we had known each other
personally for ages, and were meeting up again after a long break,
rather than people who had never met, but only exchanged email for a
few months. I thought that moment was wonderful - thank God (or
whatever) for internet!!

Clare again: well that's about it for now, we'll send more details
later. It was wonderful to meet Ross, and great to keep up my 100%
success rate of getting on well in person with email friends, I hope
to meet more of you in the future.

*Warm HUGS* to everyone who couldn't be here and real Hugs to Ross,

clare and Ross

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usually cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz but currently peterw@coombs.anu.edu.au 
                                         or rgl@adfa.oz.au

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