Pasha organized a girls’ night out and omg, I had not laughed like that in so long.  When I told my good friend Jeni, she said “Well this is not the kind of girls’ night out I had in mind for you but if you had fun that’s the main thing.” lol

Having friends is an excellent way of discovering SL.  After vising my virtual friends’ homes I was embarrassed that I had not even bothered to completely furnished my house. Pasha was a shop alcoholic so she would take us to the finest shops in SL.  Gigimarie introduced me to her SL boyfriend… Pasha & Charisse were looking for a boyfriend so that is how i learned the other kind of relationship you can have on Second Life.

Sex & marriage is a big thing on Second Life, so do lies, back-stabbing and cheating… lol

Yes, SL is one world of its kind…

Never returned until mid-2008. Someone on Plurk had a “land” for sale and was asking if anyone from Plurk was on Second Life®. So decided to go and meet that guy in-world. He explained about the “land” and what he was doing on SL™ but that was not enough to make me stick around.

Another few months passed and another friend of mine tried to get me back into SL™. I have to admit going there with somebody you know, makes it way easier. Then I met other real life people who were heavily involved on SL™ and had been there since the beginning so this time around I got intrigued.

The first thing was to make my avatar not act like a mad woman! So Prisqua Newall was re-born looking good as an avatar lol
Then I decided to set up a home and went shopping around.

You can be on Second Life® for free as joining is free and you don’t have to have a home and you don’t have to spend a cent. But I liked the idea of having a home and decorating it.

So you can go out and buy a parcel of land. The parcel may have a price tag if you chose a very popular region and some you may buy for L$1. Then you have to pay a tier every month or call it rent but you have to pay a monthly fee every month, that cannot be avoided. Price are calculated based on the sq.m or prims allocated to the parcels. Hard to explain the prims, but this is the most important part for some: the number of prims which basically define how many objects you can place on your parcel.

I spent about a week looking around and finally decided to settle on Costa Rica and build my first home.