and back...

I am learniing more and more about how to move, what the map means. I see that the little dots on the map mean other avatars and look for locations where there are a lot of people, that's how I arrive at this spot where I get to talk for the first time to a really friendly person. Locke. She tells (I think is a she) me how to set my home there. How to display property lines and how to become member of a group. We talk for a long time. I tell her that I didn't have much success with talking to people before and she tells "you get the bad with the good." We keep talking. I ask her what she does, and she tells me that it is a unsopken rule in SL not to ask questions about RL. I tell her I wasn't asking about RL. She tells me she wants to be sure and then tells me that she is a builder. I tell her about the research I want to do, and she becomes interested and doesn't mind at all. She adds me as her friend. I really like Locke. She takes me to a wall where there's a lot of free stuff. I try to put it on, but it looks really weird so I take it off. It is time to get on with my RL. This was a much better experience in SL than the previous ones.