Some of the first other avatars I talked to/chatted with was a Welsh couple that lived together in a house in a Wales themed sim. They were both very friendly. People keep saying this and I have to agree that in general most Second Life players are very friendly and welcoming to others. At least this was the case when I started out. Nowdays the new people are so many so people get tired of explaning the same things over and over again. There are many “help-places” like Orientation Island and Help Island for “newbies”. After you complete Orientation Island you end up at Help Island. This was when the software started crashing for me. So I never took part of the information from the Help Island.
The welsh couple told me about places where I could get stuff for free in able to change my appearence. One of this places was The Freebie Warehouse – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burns/92/146/79 A place with lots and lots of boxes of free stuff.
At this point I also discovered Second Sweden. Right now the largest Swedish community in Second Life. This was in March 2007 and by then Second Sweden wasn’t the large and active place it is now. By then it was a lot of empty red wooden cabins with white corners. A meeting place with a dance floor, a mid-summer flag pole, a replica of a traditional wooden horse and a fire place with a four to five avatars chatting. It was nice at first but I got bored of it fast.
So I went exploring. Every avatar has a Profile and in their profile they can list their favorite places and by checking out other avatars profiles I found my way to famous places in Second Life like The Lost Gardens of Apollo, Svarga, Dublin in SL and Wizards Alley (A Harry Potter themed sim).
