SL

As a newbie in Second Life, at first I just went to the places that the teacher told in the class. But actually that is not enough for me to satisfy my curiosity. When I was fooling around in the beautiful campus of Princeton University, a message was sent to me. It was cherry’s invitation for me to teleport to her place. That is indeed a wonderful function in Second Life, whenever you got lost from your friends, you would be saved by this function.
Cherry just called me and wanted to say hello, she suggested me that going to Freebie Beach where I can get more free clothes there. She told me that in SL, the outlook is very important. See, that’s a new me!







I met a man in sexy land, he just opening a club, he asked me if i would like to work for him or not. The job is dancers and escorts. But I think he can’t speak English very well. But I did not give any repair moves because he looked a little bit strange. So I chose to teleport to other place. If he looked good, maybe I would reconsider. Here I agree one thing :It’s true that appearance is important for a people in SL.






Domagoj Hofmann: are you looking for a job ?
wienie Sweetwater: no actually
wienie Sweetwater: just being here to take a look
Domagoj Hofmann: Iam openning a club today
Domagoj Hofmann: I need dancers and escorts
wienie Sweetwater: but i'm not a good dancer
Domagoj Hofmann: I have poles for that
wienie Sweetwater: actually i'm a newbie in SL
wienie Sweetwater: gotta go, bye

In Second Life, the problems I might meet so far is that the speed of typing English is quite slow that I could not follow the speakers of local chat. And some the text chat would just used simply a word or several words to stand for a long word or for special meanings. I think I should get used to it and learn how to used this simple words so that I would improve in typing. In SL, we almost are in the environment of text chat. In general situation, the number of repair moves in text chat is far less than in voice chat. But I think in SL, because of the reason that we are not familiar with the people who talked to us, so that we would use many repair moves to make sure what do they mean it by talking this way.

In Second Life, I can choose to be myself or to be a totally different one because nobody would know which is the real characteristic. There are no social constraints in SL. People there could somehow throw away those so called “morality”. You can be any kind of person you want. That’s what we cannot do in the reality.

Fooling around

The time I used to log in SL is always at the mid night; actually there are not many people here. Tonight I just came and fooling around. I key in the words “island” and search. That popped an interesting place called “sexy island”.
I teleported to that place and took a look on the basis of curiosity; In Sexy Island, people can danced there and buy a lot of outfits there. But the outfits are associated with sexual desire because they are too sexy!
People there are good at dancing. It was amazing that they could move, dance and do the actions just like the real person.

The Online Meeting

After the first look in Second Life, our group had to meet the TA of Online English in Second Life. There are four girls in my group, Amanda, Cherry, Iris and me. Thanks that we had to discuss our final project before the meeting, we decided to meet each other at Princeton University. That is a beautiful, I wonder whether the real Princeton is such beautiful or not.


Because we were all newbies in SL, so we looked just like the original model that we selected at the first, and I even lost my outfits. So when we met each other, we were all busy in changing our out looks.


The meeting with TA was so cool that real people can sat together, discussing and chatting without going out but just control a virtual character and can do a lot of things. During the meeting, Iris could not figure out how to sit, she tried many times and even sat on my body!

TA: Iris, Don’t be brutal to your classmate! Are you ok, Wienie?
Wienie: haha, quite hurt


Actually, I did not feel anything at that time cause the virtual would not tell me that she was hurt! This was my first experience of taking class on line. Though the use text chat in English is not so proficiency as the use of voice chat, it’s still a gorgeous meeting! And it’s quite strange that while we were having our chat, Derek was sleeping right on the rostrum…

After the meeting, Amanda, Cherry and me went to Freebie Heaven to check whether there are any goods to get. When we finished our shopping, a man came to Amanda and me.

“Do you know how to have sex in second life?”

We both did not know how to responds just simply said
“No, I don’t know. I’m newbie here”

Well, may be it’s a goal in second life, when we got more familiar with Second Life, maybe that’s the thing we can try!

First Try in SL

I choose Second Life to be the following online activity for it sounds more interesting than the other two options. Another reason is that the professor played Second Life in the class as demonstration for student to know the access to Second Life.
The first try of SL is the day before our first meeting with the TA in the SL. I down loaded the software and registered an account. Then started my “Second Life” adventures!
The appearance at first is not so beautiful and fashion as the other players in the SL, therefore I visit Freebie Heaven where the Professor suggested that we could get something good for free from there. “Teleport ” is a good function in SL, no matter where the player wants to go, just key in the words and search, you would be sent to your destination. After a lovely shopping in Freebie Heaven, I bought a plenty of clothes and could not wait to change my appearance; however I was not familiar with the functions in SL, when I took off my cloth and skirt, I could not wear on a new one. That’s really embarrassing because I could do nothing but just fooled around only with a black bra and black underwear. Finally I put on a white and a dark blue pants, but before I wore like a normal woman, there have been many strangers came to me and said something like that “Hello, sexy girl”.
The following picture is my appearance after put on clothes.



This is my first adventure in SL. It’s more than an online game; in SL there are many situations and things you would face as well as in the reality. And in SL, the player can also satisfied some of their desires and dreams that are impossible in the real life, such as “teleport”, I have been always thinking a thing like that!