From: "Jan Lissens" <jan.lissens@planetinternet.be>
To: <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Millenium Jam
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:41:08 +0200

Hi there,

This is Jan The Trekkie Twister...This is a message for all those who missed
M-Jam 2000: Sorry, people, you missed it, it's not coming back. But, there
is a way to repair your mistake: be there at next year's edition !!!

It was an absolutely awesome experience. I stayed on for an extra day and
unfortunately got to see how they were tearing down the giant soccer
sculpture...but we knew it couldn't stay up there ...

I met some amazing people this week. The gathering of twisters from all over
the world was unique. I will not start mentioning the names of all the
people i want to thank, lest I forget some of them, but there are some
people that I simply must mention:

To Leo Verlinden of IBS, who made it all possible: Thanks! It was beyond
everything I had expected !
To his wife, Shirley: Thank you as well ! I hope things will be less hectic
for you now that it's over !
To Johan and all the rest of the IBS crew: WOW !

I am having trouble pointing out the highlights of the experience, since it
was all one big highlight. The workshops were awesome, the stage competition
was great , and the sculpture contest entries were so amazing there are no
words for it.

Unfortunately, I've got a couple of busy days ahead of me, so I will have to
stop glorifying M-Jam now. I have made some amazing discoveries about it in
Uncle Ludwig's papers, however. I will finish deciphering his codes today,
so, for those who are interested, watch my post tomorrow.

Just a quick message to Magic Mike: I promised you a full report, and you
will get it.

For those that attended M-Jam, I will not finish this post with either
'Holland', 'Belgium', 'USA', 'CANADA-Ay' or whatever country. Instead, I
will just say 'OH YEAH'. It's a bit of an inside joke, but i just had to
include it !


JAN