4th Floor, UCL Student Centre How would you define virtual and real?这是我想在「蓝色弹珠」写作计划中想问你的第一个问题。This is the first question I would like to ask you in writing 「Blue Marble」
选择创作与连载为了让我想要的现实不再只是我自己想想而已，而是能够成为可以想象的某种现实。就像JK罗琳写下霍格沃茨之后，读者尤其是小读者有了对于另一种学校的想象，也有像我这样因此找到我在这个世界中的霍格沃茨。这篇文档的英文版在两个月前的周五（4.17）开始写，写到周末深夜。时隔两个月，我把中文版也一并做好，开始在GEO连载，当然也邀请感兴趣的读者不再只是阅读，也开始思考，当然也可以开始创作，无论是基于「蓝色弹珠」计划，还是天马行空自己驰骋，写吧！Choosing to create and serialise is to extend the reality I want to see not just in my mind, but to be real as it can be imagined by more. Like Hogwarts has become a symbolic imagination after J.K.Rowling wrote it down, readers like me get to imagine a different school and even find one in this world.I start to write it in English since 17th April, till the late night that weekend. And after two months, I translate them back into Chinese and start to put the two versions together at my GEO wechat account. Of course I would like to invite readers intrigued by what I write to think and even begin to create, no matter based on the 「Blue Marble」plan, or write in your own style, write!
The open day letter invitation to every possible visitorThanks for showing your interest to visit us. I am writing on behalf of everyone in the Blue Marble School. All our staff and students welcome you to visit us if you promise to sign a consent form we made. 谢谢你对蓝色弹珠学校感兴趣。我代表校园里的所有人写这封信。如果你愿意签署我们起草的一份知情同意书，我们所有的工作人员和学生都欢迎你来拜访我们。Our school is 0-tolerance to many things which you will soon figure out in our form. But before we go serious, here are three ways of understanding Blue Marble, you will see more if you subscribe or follow our social media account.我们的学校对许多事情都是零容忍的，你将会在我们的表格中看到。但在变得严肃之前，还有三种让你理解蓝色弹珠的方式，你如果订阅了我们的话，会在我们的社交媒体看到更多。Ann, the Science teacher, also a tennis coach:Blue Marble makes me feel like I can always study at my pace and guide my students who are already passionate about what they want to achieve. I like that they are curious, direct and quite challenging to teach, good thing is that they only come to me in my work time and respect my time for break. And they know and are okay that I do not always have answers.蓝色弹珠让我感到我可以按照自己的节奏来学习，指导已经对自己要实现的目标充满激情的学生。我喜欢他们如此好奇、直接，教起来很有挑战性，很好的一点是学生们只会在我工作时间来找我，并且很尊重我的休息时间。而且他们很清楚也能够接受我并不总是有答案。Di, the first-year student, apprentice to the Chef, captain of the football team:I like that Blue Marble gives me the permission to balance my academic study and other two passions: cooking and football. The support I get from my peers and teachers are amazing. But I still do not recommend you to come if you cannot manage your time by yourself. No one is after me to tell me it’s time except the alarm and reminders I set for myself.我喜欢蓝色弹珠给我可以平衡课堂上偏学术的学习和我另外两个热情所在：烹饪和足球。我的同伴以及老师们给我很多支持。但如果你不能规划管理自己的时间，我并不建议你选择来这里上学。没有人跟在我后面告诉我做什么，我只有自己给自己设时间和提醒。Ric, school-based master, architect and gardener:I am happy that I joined the Blue Marble campus construction and can still stay with this project for one more year. The next plan is to engage everyone in Blue Marble to make it lively and sustainable. It is not difficult to realise the huge challenges we are going to face, but incredibly exciting too.我很开心能够参与蓝色弹珠的校园建设，并且还能和这个项目再一起共度一年。接下来的计划是让所有在蓝色弹珠的人都能让这个地方活起来，也变得更可持续。不难想象我们要面临许多巨大的挑战，但也非常激动人心。
Hermione, the founder of the Blue Marble, head and geography teacher:The professionals can practice their profession and the kids get to learn beyond their daily experiences, so I can rest and have my cup of tea every afternoon. The only magic in our school is that we design our schools for both teachers and students as they are the source if we consider our schools as rivers flow into the future.在这里专业人士可以践行自己的专业所长，孩子们可以学习超越他们日常的经验，而我可以休息一下，喝杯下午茶。我们学校里唯一的魔法就是我们这所学校是同时为老师和学生而设计的，因为把我们的学校看成是流向未来的河流的话，ta们都是源泉。
Thanks again for showing your interest to know us more.The Director (2040-2041) of Public Relation Office Consent form for Blue Marble Open Day visitors:| The rights and duty of the visitors | | If you have a reasonable argument to make: | You can only take photos/videos and record with someone after getting his/her permission
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| 2.The videos/photos and recordings cannot be used for profit or any form of commercial use, but can be used for personal reasons. 你拍摄照片和视频不能用于盈利目的或商业用途，但个人可以使用。
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| 3.You can bring food and drink for yourself but do not give your food and drink to anyone in the Blue Marble School. 你可以自带食物和饮料，但请不要给学校里的任何人或生物分享你的食物。
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| 4. The day you visit will be a Farmer Market Day. You are welcome to buy your food but you are not going to buy food for any of Blue Marble employees or students who you have no personal relationship with.你访问的这天会是农民市集日。欢迎你在市集上购买自己的食物，但你不可以给与你没有个人亲友关系的任何蓝色弹珠的雇员或学生购买食物。
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| | 7. If any of our employees or students think you did offensive behaviour (or words) and our smart security system support their feelings, your visit will come to an end immediately. And you will not be allowed to come back in the future.如果我们的雇员或学生觉得你做了过分的冒犯行为（或说了冒犯ta们的话），我们的智能安保系统会出于保护他们感受的目的，让你的来访即刻终止。此后你也不再被允许进入我们学校。 |
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Of course, 「Blue Marble」to be continued...
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