Diary Response from Samuel (Xolo) from Interaction #1 in SL:
(We went to Cerisyi, to buy freebie clothes at the Freebie Dungeon, to some radomn cafes, ad finally to a French dance party)
Xolo writes in his response diary:
lo primero es que es sorprendente lo que la tecnologia virtual
puede hacer, a travez delm internet, poder conocer gente, hacer amigos
es bastante entretenido primero aprender a utilizar algunos de los
botones y aprender a controlar lleva tiempo, pero como dije antes es
increible todas las funciones que se pueden manejar alli….
the first thing is how suprising it is- all that the virtual technology can do, thorugh the internet, to meet people, to make friendsit is very entertaining first to learn to use some of the buttons and to learn to control it takes time, but as I said a minute ago it is incredible how many functions and possibilities are possible there…
And my own reactions:
We began this interaction as fiances and roomies, sitting at our dining room table. Sam was rather reluctant, doing this as a favor to me, Chelsey, because I am his fiance and because I made such good leftover turkey. We used voice chat and talked, our screens next to one another as I showed Sam how to sign up, pick a name, find clothes, fly, etc.
We first went to the Kissing Booth, where I have been a lot. I showed him around, we floated in a duck floatie in the ocean thing. Together. It was the first time I had been together with someone in SL like that. Then we sat beside a fire (see picture). The we swung in a hammock, me holding him. Again, first time in SL I had “held” someone. Weird, especially sitting right next to him at the wooden table not touching him in RL, only touching him in SL. Xolo and Mina, Sam and Chels.
Then we got him some clothes from the freebie dungeon which was strange mostly because he did not want to really spend time in there getting clothes like I do. He was not into it, preferring to stay in the same old avatar clothes. Interesting, bc in RL he does not care too much about clothes, though I felt the need to tell him he “needed” to change in order to be “cool.” Pressuring him via RL voice about digital existence in SL. Whoa. So he changed, leaving on the avatar shoes and choosing all black. He paid a little more attention to appearance once he figured out how to use it.
We then moved on to a cafe. He is a musician and stumbled upon an art gallery in Kissing Booth, so then wanted to explore musical scenes. The place we went has shows sometimes, but just streaming music today.
We then moved on to the haunted house Jason took the class too, which he thought was strange. Still, we had not talked to anyone
Lastly, we searched for places to go. Sam, being a avid traveler, searched for Paris. We ended up in a french bar. Thats when Sam got a tequila, telling everyone he is Mexica and then began using his desktop translator to translate Spanish words into French in order to communicate in the french cafe….
