Although I wasn't a citizen in 1998, I was presented with a plot of land in AW on which to build. It was my wish to have a house built on piles over the sea but, one day, when I went to visit "my empty property".... Surprise! Somebody had built a house on piles for me, adding on, as time went by, trees, flowers, water jets and paintings.

I have always enjoyed being invited to visit the different homes created in AW. I have been in a maze as well as houses on the snow, set in splendid gardens or even in the sea. Not to mention the ones built on Mars! One evening I was even invited to a party in honour of an Active Worlds (AW) regular: Albert1. But I didn't stay for very long because I found it very difficult to interact with about thirty people... and in English!

Artists is a world which is not often visited even though it is very beautiful. It's fascinating to find paintings and photographs and people talking, in one way or another, about art.

In the 1998/99 school year I suggested to Albert1 a virtual meeting in Artists with the children from my school (a nursery school). The idea was to set up a telecamera in his studio (he does paintings) and another one in our school. This first idea hasn't come to anything because of the difficulty of finding a webcam, but we haven't abandoned all hope.