dark star publishing, The Family Xenormin, Greetings!

"Hi! We're the Xenormin family. We are not your typical earth family. Primarily because we are not from earth! We are from the Beldan solar system, on the planet Belda, located over 10,000 light years away from the edge of your solar system.

"Thanks to some amazing new technologies discovered by our own scientists we have been able to gain access to your World Wide Web. After many discussions our leaders and citizens decided it would be a great idea to have one of Belda's families create a web site and tell the people on earth about ourselves and life here on Belda. It was decided to be done in a newsletter format.

"In the newsletter you will get the chance to meet each of our family members, plus other Beldans as well. Feel free to ask us any questions you may have about our family or Belda. For obvious security reasons certain questions will not be answered. You can contact us through what you earthlings refer to as "electronic mail" or "email". (How primitive!)

"Since our calendar measures the days differently than yours do we will try our best to update our newsletter at least every frigtz. Or what you call every month.

"Speaking of which, since our language and terminology is obviously much different than yours, at times we may have to use words or phrases in the newsletter that we are unable to translate. Because of this every frigtz, or month, we will list several words and phrases with the rough translation into your earth language called English, or Trvlscenrr. Our interpreters are working on a Beldan to English translation dictionary at this time. If there are any words or phrases that cannot be translated, but you believe you may have knowledge of their definitions you are obligated to inform us.

"We hope this newsletter will help to promote a better understanding between our two cultures. Thank you for visiting us.

"We wish all of you many happy sheep droppings!"

"Oops! I'm very sorry. I must apologize to you. Our interpreter gave me the wrong translation. It is supposed to be "We wish all of you many happy days!"

sincerely,

Grbx Xenormin

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