In the Past couple weeks I have been going onto second life and simply just roaming around figuring out how to do stuff. I travled to a lot of weird places incuding a park that was themed after alice in wonderland. I met some new people as well. On one ocassion last week, I was trying to meet new people and analysing their profiles. A lot of people wouldn’t talk to me, but i sparked a covnersation with an avatar named Sandy Santos. I met sandy in a ransom building that I telepoted to. I walked around and saw empty rooms and class rooms. I wnt downstairs to what seemed like a classroom/lecture hall type room and she started talking to me. She was very friendly. She told me that she is a professor of biology and that the building we were in was hers. Her profile said that she is looking for real world funding to help with research she is conducting in second life. I then explained to her the research I was conducting in SL and she thought that was cool. She even offered me my own office in her building.
This past week, I went into second life focusing on the buildings people have made. I first teleported to the BGSU SL campus. It was very art oriented, The buildings and sculptures were weird and elegant. I was expecting to see a replica of the actual campus, but that wasn’t the case. Also I think it was on an island because there was a lot of water. I then traveled to the OU SL campus. The OU SL campus looks very similar to the actual campus, The buildings looked the same, the insides of the building were accurate to what I noticed from th actual campus. it was kind of cool to see how people interpret what the campus looks like or should look like. Next, I ended up in NYC at a place called the Twin Towers Memorial. This was cool because this place is ground zero surrounded by shops and restaurants. The thing is that the twin towers are there but they are transparent in way saying they are still hear in our hearts and minds, never forget. After that I searched for Paris and teleported there. I ended up on a beach with lots of shops on it. The buildings had a Mediterranean feel to them. There was a large fountain in the middle of these shops an it definitely had a european feel to it. I took some pictures then teleported to a neighborhood of old victorian homes. This neighbor hood was very nice. There were tons of extremely elegant homes. I didn’t see anyone around though. It kind of seemed like a ghost town. Anyways it was nice and I took some pictures of the houses and moved on. My final destination of the day was Russia. I simply typed in Russia in the search field and teleported to whatever came up. I ended up at a place that definitely seemed like russia. When I first got there I was flying over a town square (it seemed like anyways) There was a large gold fountain in the middle surrounded by gold park benches. In each corner were 2-3 story shops. The shops had pillars and were made of marble. Again, Very European look. I the wondered around and found an outdoor night club where it was made of ice. The dance floor and dj booth anf entranceway were elegant sculptures of ice. I thought that was cool. The club was surrounded by pine trees. Most of them had Christmas lights on them. The dance floor had snowmen on them as well. There was no one there though. Just me. So I danced alone. So that was me SL experience so far, I am looking forward to do further research.