When signing up for Second Life you can choose from a selection of standard avatars. I choose the City Chick Female. Her looking asian and all. Yes have a South Korean heritage.
I landed in Second Life looking like this. And the first place I arrived to was the Orientation Island Sim. The different places in Second Life are called sims = simulator. On the Orientation Island you were offered to learn to walk, fly, and some other important features necessary to play the game. This was a good thing for me. Not having basic knowledge on how to walk and move around in a game environment. I kept walking in to things and getting stuck. At this time Orientation Island had five or six different stations and that you could go through and when you completed the tasks you got to go to the next station. Later I have lerned that you don’t have to go through these steps in order to enter other places in Second Life. You can just teleport yourself anywhere and start playing. I think I got trough tree of the stations before I got tired of it and logged off. Then it took a week before I entered this world again, now more determined to learn how to play. I hadn’t discover the Search function yet so I went to the World Map and tried to get to places where there was a lot of people. Of course I ended up at a “sex-place”. A place where Second Life avatars can have sex. The software kept crashing and I just didn’t find it fun. On the third log in I started to search for places in the search field on the World Map. I searched for places like Sweden, Ireland and Scotland, since I’d heard that there was replicas of real places in Second Life.
When walking around in Second Life everything worked very slow and my the software (game) kept crashing. My Dell Inspiron 6000 didn’t work as well for Second Life as it had for The Sims 2. I had to do a major hard-drive clean up and delete a lot of programs that took up space to make my computer work faster.
