School

I was looking for a job, to finance my uploads... (and I needed some shoes, of course).
Somehow I got a tip that I could get a job in Amsterdam, so I went there. I asked the first person I met there "where I can get a job?".. the famous newbie question.
He just said "they are hiring down the street.." and went off. I did not see anybody hiring, just a lot of men and a lot of women. The Amsterdam Sim was very crowded these days. It was also my first experience of lag.
I know what they say about the real Amsterdam, but I really could not imagine that it was possible to earn money with sex in SL!
But it was.. and I like sex and I needed money...perfect.
I did not get hired that day.. and if I had been, I had not known what to to..
So I started to search the advertisements, found out that the girls are called "Escorts" and even found an escort school. I don't like the term "escort", I think it is dishonest. These women don't take money for accompanying someone.
I went to the escort school and the place was empty. But the second time, the owner was there and was very friendly. She was a transsexual from Italy - with the full load of Italian temperament. She became my Second Life mom.
She didn't take any money from me - no, she even gave me some! My first job was to be her present for a good customer - she paid me.
I was nervous as hell!
Also I noticed that being a gift somewhat aroused me...I seem to have a soft spot for being submissive.
And then, my first customer required me to control him and to choke him between my legs! I wished that someone would have told me what to do and found myself in the opposite position...
But I must have done not too bad, since he gave me a very generous tip and ordered me later again!
Now I had 1000 L$ and went directly to the shoe store...

This is the picture my teacher/boss/mom choose for my advertisement.

Learning to Dance

Since I got the Animation Override, I was fascinated that it is possible to have own ways of moving. Not that I dared to create my own ways, no! But I wanted to collect animations, specially dances. I love dancing.
I found out that there are gestures that I can use. Some of the standard gestures are dances and they were assigned to function keys. So I spent my first times in clubs by pressing on of f9 to shift-f12 in the right sequence that would match the music. How creative I felt!
Than I had the idea to create my own gestures by combining existing animations with each other and sounds and assign them to commands.... when I was confronted with the first bug in SL... the gestures could be edited but not saved. After I worked for hours on them, I had to find out that everything was just for the waste basket. I sent a bug report and never got an answer.
However, still I was happy in my new life and practised to press the dance keys in-rhythm with the music. There I got the idea to open a dance school one day to teach all the other avatars how to press the keys at the right time. What a great business!

Later I found out that it was possible to program own animations. I downloaded a poser-demo and stared at it for a week or so. I never managed to see the little figure there, not to speak of programming a simple movement. I was depressed.
I searched for other programs and found the article in the knowledge base: the animations guide, where they also list a few free editors for animations. I stucked with QAvimator, not the ultimate tool, but easy to use.
I created my first animation, a pose, on 13th January 2007. It folds it's arms and stands on one foot only, looking a bit out of balance.
I wanted to try it in-world and found out that I need money to upload a file. My rule did not allow me to mix SL and RL and therefor I could not sipmly buy linden-$. I had to work... and what does a newbie for a living?

Camping! This was my first job. I hated it.

How I was Born at my own Will (and Risk)

I was reading in the German magazine "DER SPIEGEL" about Second Life and found it interesting.

I decided to have look. Downloading and installing of the client was easy and worked without any problem. Creating an account was easy too, at first..
But then I had to decide whether I will enter accounting information or not. Entering so would give me some money in world... difficult...
I decided to distinguis between reality and game, later, this decision was called separate RL and SL, the real life and the second life. This included also no money transfers, in or out. I still adhere to this rule.

Later I added the accounting information to confince Linden Labs that I am of full age...
I choosed City Chic as avatar because that was the only female that looked like she wear a skirt. Later I saw she was wearing pants under the skirt, a state I altered immedeately until today. This life should be different than my life...
Anyway, I did not want to look like that, so pale and dull.. I wanted to look like myself, just much, much better.
I had to find out how.
I met someone who showed me, she is still my best friend. She gave me something she called "flexy hair" and a machine or so she called "AO". Now I had hair blowing in the wind, the second wind, and I stopped to waddle and started to walk.
I think with that she implanted the hair spleen I have and the faible for animations.
I needed pictures for my profile, so I went to a lonely beach and took some pictures.
This is one of them.... today, I look a bit older...