Giorgio Lally
My name is Giorgio Lally, I am 44 years old, I live in Milan
and work in the field of computers.
I began to take part in the Active Worlds chatroom because it
was the fastest and cheapest way of communicating with one of
my cousins who lives in America. I discovered a fantastic world
that I would never have imagined existed, a world in which reality
and fantasy are combined. It is not by accident that I chose
as my nickname Peter Pan, a symbol of the playful, joyful imagination
of a child.
It is a fantasy world because it is possible to fly from house
to garden, from temple to mountain, from one country to another....
and even from one world to another.
On the other hand, it is also a real world because there are
real people with their own individual emotions and feelings.
And then there are the children. I had the good luck to meet
two teachers from Latina, Giro and Onda, who allowed me to "chat"
to their children, to follow them and be followed by them into
this wonderland.
And then there was the feeling I had when, at Christmas, I heard
the voices of all those children telling me their names and
what they wanted as a present.
So it was something much more than just a "chat" meeting; it
involved other forms of communication :)