SEX seems naked

The picture is the one I promised to post on my blog to share with everyone. The first kiss in SL. WOW

Last night, while I was in SL, I went to a place named “FREE SEX EMPIRE” and it was really amazing because that was my first time to see what virtual sex is. I took a photo and the one was shot found out and looked at me. :P

Then I met another person who was also from Frence but I didn’t really feel comfortable to talk with him. I tried to guide our conversation into an more intellectual way instead of only talking about sex all the way. Here mamy people accosted me in order to have sex, I guessed. A guy even left me immediately without saying anything when I didn’t respond his request of doing something together. May it’s the time for European guys in SL because I often met Europeans at 6:00 pm. to 10 pm.

I found out that native speakers didn’t really care about wrong spelling or typing; however, if the interlocutor knew you were a non-native speaker, he or she would have self-corrections in order not to cause non-understanding.
#1
robinwood Plutonian: don't it's feeling....
Amandast Dezno: u'r wrong haha
robinwood Plutonian: *my
robinwood Plutonian: shame
#2
robinwood Plutonian: u can many things here
robinwood Plutonian: *do
Amandast Dezno: for example?
#3
Paul11 Osterham: just continue to work o it..
Paul11 Osterham: on it*

Sometimes people may come to SL for the language purpose. I am the evidence. In addition, I met a guy who spoke Spanish to me even though his Spanish was not very well. Or maybe he thought I am a spanish speaker, so it would be easier to accost people by speaking the same language.
#4
Davis Piers: sabe aonde eu compro cortes de cabelo?
Amandast Dezno: well
MerryGentryNicessus Fairey shouts: Dark this dweeb is following your wife
Amandast Dezno: are u speaking spanish
Davis Piers: very pooor
Amandast Dezno: i'm poorer than u
Davis Piers: shop free head
Davis Piers: ?
Amandast Dezno: ?
Amandast Dezno: what did u mean
Davis Piers: yes
Davis Piers: i need buy head
Amandast Dezno: oh~
Davis Piers: aisuhasiu
Davis Piers: no
Amandast Dezno: i have no idea where to buy head actually
Amandast Dezno: sorry
Davis Piers: ok, thanks

People come to SL for different reasons but one of the main motive is about “sex”. "Sex" seems naked in SL because you don't have to hide it. Most of the men I met told me they came for girls or sex. Second life is indeed a good place for people to explore what you won’t do or not easy to do in real life. Maybe some people would think in SL we are not who we are and that is not the real self, just a virtual world. However, in SL, many people express their deep feelings instead of hiding their ture thought because of worring to offend others. They show their desires for sex and their subconsciousness. Therefore, in some way, I will say that people are "true" in SL.

Meet you guys in SL

In the online meeting, we chated with each other on purpose instead of chit chatting. As usual, everyone greeted each other as opening. Almost in every chat, I used greeting as opening to continue my comversation. However, when I met my close friends such as Wienie, I won’t greet her at the beginning; instead, I hit the point.
#1
Amandast Dezno: where r u
Amandast Dezno: i got uo at 730 to work on my ppt= =
wienie Sweetwater: hey
wienie Sweetwater: did you get my PPT
wienie Sweetwater: Amenda!!!!!!!!!
Amandast Dezno: yes
#2
Amandast Dezno: hi
Von Waydelich: Hi
Von Waydelich: Pardon, i don´t see you

When we talked, almost everyone would use emoticons. We didn’t have difficulties in understanding each other at some times; however, once a interlocutor didn’t understand what I want to express with the emoticon “ XD” which I used a lot when I chated with my friends. The reason might be the background difference. Because my friends and I have the same cultural context about emoticons, so we understand each other without difficulties. Instead, P and I are from different countries and therefore we couldn’t comprehend what the other side meant.
#3
TA Putzo: ah...she got it, you got it amanda
DancingMojoSpieluhr Sideshow: huh
DancingMojoSpieluhr Sideshow: lol
Amandast Dezno: so smart!
wienie Sweetwater: is he in our online english class?
Amandast Dezno: yes= =
wienie Sweetwater: who??
#2
Amandast Dezno: i'm too poor
Amandast Dezno: XDD --->get it?
Paul11 Osterham: ?
Amandast Dezno: it means hahaha
Paul11 Osterham: sorry..
Amandast Dezno: chinese way actually
Paul11 Osterham: for ?
Amandast Dezno: because it looks like the facial expression og laughing
Paul11 Osterham: wow

Through the process of negotiation, we use lots of overt of agreement, overt of disagreement,repetetion, clarification, which play important roles in continueing and furthering the conversation. Asking questions is one of the key ways to continue the conversation for me actually.
#3
TA Putzo: Are you satisfied with the tools/page elements Blogger offered?
wienie Sweetwater: and that's easy to memorize
Amandast Dezno: not really
Cherry1213 Lemon: notrealyy
TA Putzo: why?
TA Putzo: does dome functions bother you?
iris75 Karu: not really
Cherry1213 Lemon: it's hard to edit if u wants to post pictures
iris75 Karu: strange in their tools
Amandast Dezno: i get used to the usage of Taiwanes Blog so .....i don't think blogger is convenient as pixnet or other blogs in TW
#4
TA Putzo: do you have other blogs beside this one?
Cherry1213 Lemon: i have another blog for another sharing
wienie Sweetwater: but a lot in the "wretch" XD
Cherry1213 Lemon: me too haha
iris75 Karu: me too
Amandast Dezno: me too
#5
TA Putzo: like someone will visit your blog constantly but you dont' know who they are in real life
wienie Sweetwater: no.....
Amandast Dezno: maybe not
iris75 Karu: no
TA Putzo: Do you think your blog is a global platform?
Amandast Dezno: kind of
Cherry1213 Lemon: yeah
iris75 Karu: yeah
wienie Sweetwater: yes

How to fill in your Profile

First try!

Wednesday morning we went on SL to go through an online meeting instead of having a class in the so-called classroom. First of all, I haddifficulties in moving because I had no idea how to move in SL; however, people seemed not to respond to my question. Maybe there were too many people chatting there or they didn’t get what I asked, maybe……QQ. In freebie island, I met H who was a freebie from germany and I instructed him how to go to other places but he didn’t really understand what I talked about. Perhaps because there was something wrong with my instruction (not clear and simple enough) or his English ability was not as high as I thought, he couldn’t immediately understand what I was trying to tell him.
Most of the time he responded “nice” to me, I thought maybe it was one of the clues to his English ability. He didn’t have enough English vocabulary or didn’t have much idea about pragmatics which meant he was not good at social talks in English. What’s more, his sentences were not grammatically correct.

hams: how are you?
Amandast: pretty good!
hams: nice
Amandast: u know how to move
hams: cann you speak germany
Amandast: sorry i can't
hams: ok
Amandast: well actuallu i speak chinese
hams: are you from a long time in this program? (not a correct sentence but I could guess what he meant)
hams: oh nice but i can not speak it
Amandast: not really, i'm a newbee
hams: ok this is the first day for me here
hams: i dont know it good (should be “well” instead of good)
Amandast: wow it's my second day
hams: oh nice
Amandast: me either
hams: and from where you are?
hams: ?
Amandast: u can go to newbie heaven first , there are lotsa of free stuff
Amandast: Taiwan
hams: oh nice

Several minutes later, he asked somebody else how to get to other places and left me behind even though I was still talking to him. At that moment, I felt he didn’t know what the hell etiquette is. A conversation without closing irritated me.

ortiz: whats up hams
hams: i want go to anothe place
ortiz: do you have any property?
hams: i dont now nothing
hams: no
Amandast: property? what did u mean
hams: i dont whant to be here
hams: is not nice
hams: how can i go o another city
Amandast: haha
hams: ?
Amandast: use search
hams Xue: then'
hams Xue: ?
Amandast Dezno: but i haven't teleported successfully so far
Amandast: BTW, hams u know how to move
Amandast: i have no idea
Amandast: how to waLK
(Then he didn’t answer me anymore and just walked away to talk to somebody else)
When I chatted with my classmates, I sometimes coded switch in English and Chinese. The reason why we did this was that we were short of vocabulary.

Amandast: 哇靠!!!!
Amandast: where's my hair
Amandast: my haven't plan to 出家so far
Cherry1213: ??
wienier: ???
Amandast: hu~it shows up
Amandast: when i log in my hair's gone

#
Cherry1213 Lemon: press 即時通
wienie: cause the window opens slowly
Cherry1213: and there is log chat

Educational Uses of Second Life

Turn into the body

Wednesday night, in order to get more free outfits such as gowns, I went to Alady Island but there were only a few people over there and it seems that I couldn’t get free stuffs in Alady Island. Actually, I felt kind of embarrassed because as a newbie, my outfit, hair and accessories looked unlovely. :( People I met in other places always wear gorgeous outfits which were suitable for the setting.

I searched “dance” on the bar and then chose to go to “Sweethearts Jazz Greeter”. There people were dressing nicely except me; therefore, I tried many times to accost people for asking where I can get free outfits besides to Freebie Heaven.

At first, I got sort of shocked because some people didn’t really talk to u and I was afraid if I would say something wrong to offend others, I would deliberate before I said it. Somehow I still got hurt at first for being ignored and left. Fortunately, I thought of Emma’s caution in class that we might have cultural shocks in SL so I didn’t give up to accost people. That was my first experience in exploring SL. Later I met a woman, Cherry, she guided me to the board where I could get free and gorgeous gowns, hairs and accessories. By the way, she also sent me many landmarks. When I was asking questions in public, a man who heard I needed free outfits gave much stuff to me for free even though I was not talking to him. How nice!

New ME

Then something interesting happened. I accosted a man who was dressed differently from other people in Sweethearts Jazz Greeter. Almost everyone was dressed up but he wore the worn outfit like a teenager. Indeed I appreciated his outfits. When I asked why he was dressed differently from others, he responded “I’m too poor to have something better”. I said “I am poor too”. Then he gave me 1000 dollars. WOW
He also told me I need to work on my shape hard and gave me some advices about which parts to promote. During the long chat, he told me lots of things and took me to explore other places. The most impressive words about SL he said was “it’s more than a game. Before he left, he gave me another 1000 dollars. How nice the experience was for me!

In the communication, I found out that people use lots of abbreviations and through the process of negotiation, we got more opportunities to practice our target language, maybe sometimes learning the tricks of asking for explanation.

P: mm You r on a very good way for your AV..
A: AV?
P: shape= AV= Avatar

People would often spell words wrongly but they didn’t mind if it would not cause misunderstanding of meaning. Sometime, there were some self-corrections happening. I think one of the reason is that P didn’t want to confuse me because I have been confused about what he talked about once. At that time, he didn’t correct his spelling but just instruct me in another way.

P:I can get somem oney (money)from my reserve. do you need?
A: what did u mean
P:mmm take what I give you please..
A: ok

In the negotiation sequence, we request, check comfirmation, indicate our understanging, agreement or nonagreement. Through the process, we somehow learn the way to communicate with and undestand each other. I use many emoticons and the man I talked to show his humor which made the atmosphere more relaxed between two stangers like us. We always deleted question or capital marks which would not interfere the understanding of meaning in our conversation.

A: what did u mean (clarification request & omission of the question mark)
P: mmm take what I give you please..(instruction)
A: ok
A: wow!
A: thank u
P: its my pleasure
P: love to help you
A: oh~so sweet
P: but you must work on your shape
A: how
P: mmm your eyes....
P: too too big
A: hahahah
A: i'll work on it immediately:P (emoticon)
P: mm when you can..
P: mm your nose is too big also.. its just an advice
A: thanks for tou opinion
A: where are u from
P: Mongolia
P: no.. kidding (humor)
A: hahaha
P: france