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The next night Anna woke up suddenly. The computer was 2 0 Strange Messages on again. This time there was a message on it. Anna was at he...

The next night Anna woke up suddenly. The computer was 2 0 Strange Messages on again. This time there was a message on it. Anna was at her best friend Julia's house. She often went 'I Icllo, Anna. It's me. Follow your dream.' there to do homework with her. It was their last year of 'Perhaps it's Uncle Bob,' Anna thought. school, and they always had a lot of homework. 'I'he next day she phoned him. Anna, what are you going to do when you leave school?' 'Thanks for the computer message, Uncle Bob!' asked Julia. Are you going to go to college?' 'What message?' asked Uncle Bob. 'Perhaps. I don't really know,' said Anna. 'So who sent the message?' thought Anna. Anna didn't want to tell Julia, but she had a wonderful ambition: she wanted to go up into space. Anna told Julia about the message. 'One day,' she thought, 'I'm going to be an astronaut.' 'Wow!' said Julia. 'What an interesting computer! But Anna wrote a letter to NASA in America. She wanted to Anna... do you have a dream? homework when work there. She said nothing to her mother and father 'Well, yes I do,' said Anna. And she told Julia all about you learn at home, usually in about it. They didn't understand. the letter to NASA, and about her mother and father. the evening or at the weekend 'Anna's going to be a doctor,' her mother said to all their 'I can't tell them about my ambition,' she said. '"Only school students friends. When she heard that, Anna smiled. She didn't boys want to be astronauts," they think, and "Our learn here want to be a doctor. She had different ideas. daughter wants to be a doctor, " they say.' college you study here after 'Oh dear! What are you going to do. Anna?' you leave school ambition a big One day, Anna's Uncle Bob came to her house. Anna liked thing that you want to do Uncle Bob. I-Ie was different from her mother and father. A few days later, Anna got a letter from NASA. It told her (before you die) He knew about Anna's ambition. all about a good college in America. space the sun and stars are in 'Hello, Anna. Would you like this old computer? I have a 'After I go there I can work for NASA,' she told Julia. this new one now. You can do your homework on it.' 'But that college is in America,' said Julia. 'What are you astronaut this person works in 'Oh, yes. Thank you, Uncle Bob.' going to say to your mum and dad?' space 'Oh, I don't know, Julia. They don't understand.' NASA National Aeronautics and Anna put the computer in her bedroom. That night, she That night there was a new message on the computer. Space Administration went to bed and dreamt about going into space. At two 'Hello, Anna. It's me. Follow your dream.' (IJSA):people learn to be o'clock in the morning she suddenly woke up. The Anna sat at the computer. She wrote: 'Who are you?' message you write this to astronauts here computer was on. The message on the computer said: 'I had a dream like someone on working 'That's strange,' she thought, but she soon went back to you. You can do it Anna. You can be an astronaut.' follow to go after strange not something usual sleep. For the next three nights, Anna sat at her computer and somebody 8 9  something on it tonight about space. Are you interested?' 'Yes. Let's watch it,' said Anna. The TV had a picture of sotne astronauts on it. One was a young wonlan with a big srnile the wornan on Anna's computer! Anna suddenly felt very cold. 'Who's that woman, Dad?' she asked. 'An astronaut. She died in space ten years ago.' 'What? She died?' Anna looked at the TV. The happy young woman looked back at her. 'What. did you want to talk about?' her father asked. 'It doesn't matter, Dad. Forget it: i/ That night, Anna couldn't sleep. She wanted to read the next message on the computer, but nothing happened. For She wrote: 'Who 'talked' to new friend. Every time she sent a message, a her a week, Anna watched the computer and she only slept for are you?' new message came back. The messages were all about two or three hours every night. But there were no more being an astronaut. messages. the third night, the friend wrote: 'Do it Anna. Be At first, Anna felt sad. Then she phoned Julia. happy. I was happy, and you can be happy too.' 'I'm going to tell Mum and l)ad about NASA.' With the message there was a picture. It was a photo of 'Oh, good, Anna! You're doing the right thing,' said Julia. a young woman, with dark hair and a friendly smile. 'I know her!' Anna thought. But she couldn't remember The next day Anna told her mother and father, and Uncle her name. She phoned Julia and told her about the photo. Bob talked to them. At first, they didn't like the idea, but 'What do you think, Julia?' they talked to Anna's teachers and read the letter from 'Your computer friend is right. You must follow your NASA. In the end, they said to Anna: 'Of course you must dream. But when are you going to tell your mum and dad?' follow your dream'. The next evening, Anna was with her father in the living So Anna went to college in America, and after live years she room. went to work for NASA. She took Uncle Bob's computer 'Dad. Can I talk to you about something?' with her, and she never forgot the strange messages from 'Of course, Anna, but let's watch TV first. There's space. sad not happy 10 11