Cypris Village is a multicultural educational environment focused on English learning, now launching its first quarterly magazine featuring stories from the community. The village promotes social interaction and language practice through various activities and aims to evolve into a non-profit organization. With engaging experiences and supportive participants, it fosters language skills and cultural exchange among a diverse group of learners.

3. Cypris Village has been providing
an educational environment of English
learning teaching for people from
many countries. We keep creating fun
experiences through various activities for
everyone As part of our many plans, we are
glad to announce that we are publishing
our very first Cypris Magazine! We will
try to make it a quarterly magazine. Each
article will contain wonderful stories from
Cypris Village. We hope you will enjoy!
• The Magazine Team
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4. What are the special features
of Cypris ?
I would have to say it's how nice eve-
ryone is. It's really amazing. When the
group was about 20 members I thought it
was big enough. I didn't want it to get bigger
because I was afraid we would attract people who
might disrupt the balance of the group. Luckily for everyone, I was
completely wrong. Choosing to open up the group has turned out to
be one of the best decisions of my life.
What is our goal ?
That is a fantastic question! I can't answer it though. haha. I have my
own personal goals for what I would like to do in virtual world dis-
tance education but as for the group, well, it's up to the group. I am
hoping another leader will emerge to continue the mission of provid-
ing a nice and safe place for English speaking practice. We do hope to
make Cypris Chat a non-profit organization with 5 or 6 officers joining
to run the daily operations of the island. It's still too early to speculate
where Cypris will go from here at this time. Let's keep making friends,
practicing, and having fun.
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5. Could you tell us what are
you doing here?
Do you mean what I do at Cypris?
Firstly, I research ways to help English
learners practice what they have learned
in school. I do this by providing conversa-
tion activities that motivate people to speak
to one another. Once or twice a week I teach lessons to keep me
active in teaching and the virtual environment. I really try to get
people to talk talk talk talk talk. Like Ana. =)
. Tell us some great memories of Cypris
Oh. Wow. So many. The day Mystie brought me over to her land
and said, “I want to sell my land but I don’t want to sell it to anyone
because it’s on a west facing corner of the island. Do you want to
buy it?” I bought from her and started Cypris. Or the times when
people say, “Cypris has changed my life.” That makes me cry. I re-
member the belly laughs we have had over and over again, beauti-
ful travel times, fireworks, movies together, flying, boat rides dur-
ing sunset, dreamy sims, games, crazy avatars, gesture craziness,
and even a couple odd moments with strange people we have met.
Fun times.
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6. I live in Kyoto, Japan.
I currently work at
Ritsumeikan Uni-
versity, in Kyoto, as
an English lecturer.
I like teaching at
Cypris because the
students are from
all different parts
I’m an English instructor at
a Buddhist university in the
of the world and
Republic of Korea. I am in- are very motivated
terested in the future of cyber to practice their
education, and Cypris Village English.
gives me the opportunity to
learn how to teach online us-
ing 3D environments. Online
teaching requires continual learn-
ing by teachers, and that keeps
me up-to-date and informed.
Learners and teachers share their
knowledge together.
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7. For the past 18 years I lived
in Columbus, Ohio up to
January 31 of this year I was
working for a company pro-
viding tech and customer
support but now I’m un-
employed and living tem-
porarily with my mother. I I’m living in Washington
like teaching at Cypris be- State. I’m a student/I’m
cause it’s a rewarding activ- a workshop assistant for
ity, it’s fun and I really love educational technology
meeting interesting people consulting business. I like
from around the world! teaching at Cypris because
I meet lots of interest-
ing and nice people from
around the world!
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8. Cypris Village is a
multicultural community
that has people from all
over the world.The fol-
lowing graph shows the
rate of members who
get benefit of Cypris
Chat and attend its free
lessons and activities.
* This statistic is six months old, it may differ at the time of publishing. “7”

9. In January 2010, a special course called “Read-
ing Circle I” has started in Cypris. Learners
who wanted to participate in this course were
required to have 500 participation points and
to purchase a book containing seven short sto-
ries to use in the class. The learners received
homework each week to prepare for the next
week’s discussion according to six roles, Dis-
cussion Leader, Summarizer, Connector, Word
Master, Passage Person, and Culture Collector.
“ The reading circle was a great experience, I
really enjoyed every class.” said Mystie Slade.
Vamp Merlin said “The reading circle helped
me to speak out loud and be part of the dis-
cussion.”. “Reading CIrcle I” became a whole
new way for learners to practice English in
a very interesting virtual environment. n
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10. Vamp and Christine, two of our hosts at Cypris
Chat, had a wedding at Cypris Village on Janu-
ary 27th 2010. Vamp is Australian and Christine
is from China. They met each other at the old
Cypris Village and started dating on August 8th
2009. Of their first impression of each other,
vamp said, “She was shy and cute ”, and Chris-
tine said that she was surprised with his Austra-
lian accent. Vamp is known as a nice guy in the
Cypris group, and Christine was attracted by
his kindness and gentleness. After dating each
other for a while, the two finally held a wedding
ceremony at Cypris Village. The two are now
known as Cypris’s lovely couple; let’s congratu-
late them on their wedding and wish their hap-
piness forever!j
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13. Being a member who was very shy
to use voice, Lora has become now
an aspiring learner in the whole
community of Cypris.
If you walk on the bridge in front
of the clubhouse at Cypris, you will
Lora is a kindergarten teacher from
probably notice this name on one of
Poland. When she first started to
those stars, Himiko Allen.
come and observe the lessons, she
Himiko is from Japan and she’s
couldn’t speak any English, and al-
one of the hosts in Cypris Chat. She’s
ways using translator to communi-
been hosting Memorizing Activity
cate. However, she has been work-
each Friday , which has helped many
ing very hard to improve her English
learners to learn new expressions.
and started talking more and more.
Although she is a busy housewife in
She has become very active in the
real life, she is still spending her time
group, too. Lora has been solving
on English studying as in “The Read-
difficult questions at quiz chairs and
ing Circle” classes and planning some
scavenger hunts. Her story should be
events for the community. We are
encouraging and motivating to every
all looking forward to Himiko’s next
other English learners, for sure. d
plan for Cypris very much!
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15. For More Information
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