From: Di.Lewis@p7.f155.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Di Lewis)
Newsgroups: k12.lang.russian
Subject: Re: hello from Australia
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 16:42:48 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 3:633/155.7 - SECAP BBS, Clayton Vic


  * Message Forwarded on 01-Oct-1992
  * Originally By: Jeff Clement
  * Originally To: Di Lewis
  * Originally Re: Re: hello from Australia

Hi Di, I believe that Peter Tsaer is a user from your board and has written a message in K12 Russian language area.  He might not have realised he had a reply as the message is sent to all, since the message was written by a internet user.  Here is the message which he received anyway if he didn't realise he had a reply ... you might want to forward it to him.  Jeff.

  * Message Forwarded on 12-Sep-1992
  * Originally By: George Hastings
  * Originally To: All
  * Originally Re: Re: hello from Australia

From: ghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (George Hastings)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 05:05:12 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)
Newsgroups: k12.lang.russian

Peter.Tsaer@p7.f155.n633.z3.fidonet.org  writes:
> Hi!
> Our names are Yuri and Peter. We are comers from Russia. I, Peter,
am in Australia one and a half year and Yuri is in Australia ten and a half months. I came from Moscow and Yuri came from Minsk. Now we live in Melbourne and we are going to school to year eight. Our school is really big and it is about ten times bigger than the schools we went in Russia. That is it for today. Please write back.                     Peter and Yuri.

> uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!3!633!155.7!Peter.Tsaer
> Internet: Peter.Tsaer@p7.f155.n633.z3.fidonet.org

Hello, Yuri and Peter,
     I was in Russia this summer in June and July. I didn't go to Minsk, but I enjoyed the sights in Moscow: Red Square - they were setting up very large seating areas for a BIG ROCK
CONCERT!, the Kremlin - I was impressed with the many BEAUTIFUL churches inside, Moscow University - I understand that it is
the BIGGEST university building in the world, with ALL of its classrooms in the one large building, the Moscow Circus -
wonderful entertainment, and Arbat Street, where I was amazed at the wide variety of things for sale.
     Most of my time in Russia was at a place whose name you
share, Yuri. I wonder if you were named for Russia's most
famous cosmonaut: Yuri A. Gagarin. I was at the Y.A.Gagarin
Center in Zhvezhdnyy Gorodok for a short course in Cosmonaut
Training.
     We were the first civilian Americans ever admitted to the training classes, and spent time in the high altitude chamber, the centrifuge where we experienced the gravity forces felt
during a Soyuz liftoff. We practiced rendezvous and docking
with the MIR Space Station, riding in the Soyuz Cosmonaut
Training Simulator. We studied the life support systems inside the full size MIR Space Station. We practiced for missions
outside MIR with the pressurized ORLAND space suit, and learned how to maneuver the IKARUS flying chair.
     The most exciting part of our studies at Stellar City was our training for weightlessness in an Ilushin-76. We climbed
and dove in a series of flying arcs that let us float
weightless for about 30 seconds each time. It was wonderful! I hope that I will be able to visit the MIR as a guest cosmonaut when they select an American educator to travel to the space
station.
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