Serenity Convention, Thistle Heathrow
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I got my ticket on my birthday last week, along with my cocktail party invitation. I am quite abnormally excited.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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GRRR! Wish these Starfury types would make it easier to buy tickets from U.S. But at last! AFter a morning of struggle, many calls to phone company wondering why international dialing not working:
I HAVE TICKETS!!!
And get this folks: He said they've sold around 600 tickets already, so if you want to go, better get moving on it.
**EXCITED but terrified! No refunds! Must book flight! Probably need Rail Passes! Probably need a second mortgage on the family home! EEEEEEEK**
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Originally posted by DoubleShiny:
I got my ticket on my birthday last week, along with my cocktail party invitation. I am quite abnormally excited.
I received my ticket two weeks and still go bouncing off the walls occasionally. It is a bit weird how excited I am about this. Never even been to a con before, never really felt tempted to go and now I am as excited as when I still believed in Sinterklaas and was waiting until I could unpack my presents. AND I am going to the meet-and-greet!
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I really wanted to come over and combine it with some shopping and seeing old friends but I won't be able to make it. A bit too optimistic when it came to available funding. What with Sinterklaas, Christmas and a BIG holiday coming up, I simply can's spare the cash. I was really hoping I could make it.
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I'm mad 
I sent off for the tickets the WEEK it became possible to buy them, never heard anything back, turns out that my mail never got delivered, so I've had to resend this week! Oh, I hope I'm going to get my tickets, otherwise if I can't go, I'm going to yell at the Post Office... then yell... then yell... demand compensation for the emotional trauma... Then try to crash the party anyhow :(
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Quote:Yay! Always good to have an international contingent.
Originally posted by firefloozysuzie:
I HAVE TICKETS!!!
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Thanks, Ned.
I have one request for you English and other European persons, however.
Our original plans for The Daughter's spring vacation were supposed to included Quebec or France - she's in her third year of French in high school.
So if you see us at the Con, speak French to the girl, otherwise she'll *never* practice :-)
(Is there such a thing as a French browncoat?
I haven't seen any on the boards. Or am I opening a major can of worms asking mostly UK folk such a question???)
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There is indeed a French browncoat!
I'm going to Serenity, along with (at least) 4 other froggies. Who knows, maybe other ones will be there.
So your daughter can do the French practice there.
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Your chances of getting most of us Brits to speak French are probably fairly low, we may study it for years at school, and in my case grow up only 21 miles away and visit often for town "Twinning events", but when it comes to actually speaking any foreign language while in the UK, somehow we feel very silly.
So bienvenue, wilkommen etc to anyone from outside UK!
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Originally posted by Grimma:
There is indeed a French browncoat!
I'm going to Serenity, along with (at least) 4 other froggies. Who knows, maybe other ones will be there.
So your daughter can do the French practice there.
Bon! We'll have to look for you guys.
Make sure to speak French, now, while you're there or we'll never spot ya ;-)
I've also discovered that the girl we're visiting in Edinburgh has a French flatmate. See? Travel to the Serenity Con *can* be FUN and EDUCATIONAL!
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To tell you the truth, we want to avoid looking like a French herd. Since there will also be German peeps as well and our common most-easily-spoken language is English, we will mainly be speaking English. Of course, if your daughter is there, we'll use French :-)
We should think about a plan to meet up at some point during the convention, just to insist on that EDUCATIONAL aspect of it :-D
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