Upon arriving at Info Island, I noticed that two other classmates were there also. Immediately we got together and started our assignment. Alyson, Jared and I took a picture in front of the Info Island sign. It was a wide open are with alot to so, Alyson and I went on to the next location. We came to an area that was called the Alliance Virtual Library Foster Building. It was a place for general reference, digital collections, human sexuality, second life information and many other things. We met an Info Island greeter bot there and said hello. All around this location at Info Island were Christmas trees with decorations and pink bulbs, some snowmen and snow covered evergreen trees. This seemed a little werid to me because it was green everywhere else.
After the library we moved onto our next location, the Stonewall Learning Center. This is a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender building. Here we took a picture infront of the informational sign. It was very bright and colorful, with a lot of signs and posters. There was an advertisement for "A Song for Bobby", a movie or book about a mother dealing with the suicide of her gay son. All around this location were purple weeping willow trees and a water fountain.
Next we went to Peace Park Heartsease Garden. This was a beautiful place filled with gorgeous flowers and butterflies flying all around. We took a picture in front of the Park sign. There were stepping stones as you walk in that each say some type of inspirational word such as hope, laugh and create. A chapel for Buddhism was there along with some other sort of chapel with beautiful stained glass windows. Two avatars were inside the park, one named Harlan Wemyss told us to "get lost" and the other said "looking good". When we tried to ask them why we should get lost they would not respond!
The final location we visited was the Online Census Records Union of Geneology Groups. It was a large building full of seating and computer for geneology and medical research. A large fireplace and big chairs made the atmosphere very cozy. We took a picture together out front of the building. There were advertisments and ads around the building for different search engines and facebook groups.
I had to find a librarian next, so Alyson approached this man inside of the Alliance Virtual Library and he took a picture with me. He gave us a link to teleport to a location to view events and activities. We teleported to this site, I found a couple events I was interested in. One was called Book Talk that will be on February 4, 2009 at 6:00 pm. Dewey The Small Town Library Cat who touched the world will be the special guest. The add said to expect cat avatars galore! Smooth Jazz Fridays at the Jazz Cat was the other event that I was interested in. It is every Friday from 5-6:30 pm.
I decided to teleport to the Chakryn Forest next, Alyson came with me. This forest was very dark and scary, I heard random heartbeats and birds screaching around me. Trees and boulders surrounded me in every direction. We came across a big waterfall and decided to take a picture, it was the only interesting we had seen at that point. By the waterfall was a frog tip jar that had money inside of it. After this we found some sort of white twirling ball in the sky with a statue floating below it, I have no idea what it was but it was interesting. While standing by this musicbox music started playing somewhere close. I never noticed any other avatars while I was at the Chakryn Forest.
Next we went to Pondex, which is some sort of sandbox for avatars to go build things with blocks and other objects. We were teleported onto a dock that had a boat at the end of it, we stook inside of this boat and took a picture. In the field we saw other avatars in a group doing some sort of activity. We approched them and asked them what they were doing. A couple of the avatars talked to us and explained that they were new to Second Life also. At this site, I had my first confrontation with another avatar! A lady said she that she "lost her dern skirt" over her microphone and we couldn't help but laugh at this. I offered friendship to one avatar we spoke to, his name was Branden Blaylock. The Pondex was a big open area with space to build and do activities.
The last place we teleported to was Themiskyra. This place was confusing to me, I had no idea what it was. I started in a house and somehow ended up underwater where I decided to take a picture with a mermaid and shark. It was beautiful at this underwater site, there were lights strung around, clams with pearls, and fish swimming all around me. I left this spot and walked across the beach back to the house I started at. Alyson was here and talking to another classmate, Kasey Mnemonic. We decided that we had done everything that we could do at this point and exchanged information before leaving Second Life.
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