We have both been geek girls lately.
My best friend lives in California.† We have always used the internet to stay in touch, mainly by playing online games.† I am always a Ranger chick with a bow.† She is always a Cleric.† We have a blast.† A new game just came out.† Rift.† We beta tested it for about 6 weeks and then it went live a couple of weeks ago.† I have since been spending my time in Telara, a world full of beauty and mystery.† I play on a PvP server.† That is Player versus Player for you non-gamers.† Which means someone from the ‘other’ side can come and kill me at any time and vice versa.† We play with a bunch of people from all over North America.† We are in a guild called Black Daggers.† We have a vent channel so we can talk because typing is soooooo 2000.† I have a blast.† There are tons of† “Achievements” you can get in the game.† Carla and I saw this one and had to do it.† You had to find this remote area on a huge mountain and find these little squirrels.† When they started dancing you had to make your character dance with them…your title…”Dances With Squirrels”† We HAD to get a screen-shot of it.
Kei has been living in the Webkinz World.† She has had Webkinz since she was 6 and has 114 at last count.† That is a lot of pets to keep happy.† She decorates their rooms, chats to other people, runs a restaurant, does tons of research to find our the best items in the trade rooms, keeps a chart with all the things she trades and what they are worth, finds new recipes and patterns for clothes, plays with one of her best friends and has a blast.† She always cracks up at what some people name their Webkinz.† She had to take a picture of one of them.
Like Mother, like Daughter.
We have managed to get work done.† We† are still in Ancient Greece.† We are fascinated with Gods and wars and ancient cities.† We finished up Cats in Science and learned so many fascinating things about them.† We are still using the iPhone for a lot of our educational time.† It rocks.† We are learning about Drafting Geometry and it amazes me how quickly Kei catches on. She gets so frustrated because there is 4 pages of the same concept so if she gets it, we just move on.
It has warmed up here. Spring is a comin’… I can hear it calling our names.
Hope we can hear it in our virtual worlds.
ìGive a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeksî† ~Unknown
Karen, it’s so funny and beautiful how alike you and Kei are. Two peas in a pod! Your posts have got me actually considering getting something technological-like for the kids. Those iApps (ooh, did I just come up with a cool name?) sound great, and the kids would love them. Hmmm, perhaps an iTouch thingy would be good? See, I don’t even know what to call them! We have one on-line computer, no wii, almost no tv, no playstation, and only my husband’s iphone. I’m “i” Illiterate! Perhaps you and Kei would like to pop over to Oz and educate us??! 🙂
Your game with your friend sounds like a fun, sweet way to stay in touch! And now you get to start frolicking in the Spring sun, too. Beautiful.
I was starting to wonder where you were!!
Now I know. I should just look online.
🙂
Jess, I have an iPhone with Face Time. We need to let the girls talk. Kei said ‘eep’ when I asked her if she would like that. 🙂
We are still on Ancient Greece too! We are learning so much about all of the gods and goddesses and really enjoying it so much!!
We ordered Allie an ipod touch. It should come tomorrow. She saved her money from her birthday and Christmas and then with P’s recent birthday she got a few extra dollars from my family for it. I can’t wait to play with it!!
Miss Grace uses her itouch to keep in touch with friends through texting and facetime. She loves it. She has her weather channel app and her doppler radar app. I am never caught without an umbrella! Miss Lilah can spend hours on these sites that allow her to design outfits for different occasions. She gets feedback on how well her outfit is coordinated with makeup and suits the event. She is my budding fashionista!
PS……..I can hear my boys upstairs on SKYPE gaming away with their friends who live down the coast a bit! Wonderful! I am going back to my knitting.
We are also learning about Ancient Greece and the gods at the moment! I am a bit of an anti-computer game person because my boys would game away all day if I let them. LOL. You two would fit in very nicely with my lot!
Waiting for spring must be exciting! I don’t much like the cold myself! Although I don’t mind the occasional snuggle in front of the fire. I get over it pretty quickly!
Here is a link to the site where we got the experiment from if you want to take a look… http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=marinebiology&c