After reading some articles on an italian newspaper, I decided to create my Second Life Avatar on the 24th of february 2007. The metaverse soon bewitched me and I never thought to leave. Hopefully I met people from all aorund the world, who helped me a lot discovering building and many other things you can do there.
After some months and a lovestory break down (lol) I discovered a very particular italian sim, Nuova Sicilia, and its owner, Cristos Benelli. As I’m from Sicily too, and as me and Cristos became soon friends, I started feeling that sim as my home and helping him in running the shops, learning something about island management and event organization. In the meanwhile, attracted by the mermaid myth, I joined different mer groups and finally I specialized myself in mermaid outfits and furniture, opening my mall, Mermaid Lake. It changed location before landing in my private island, Al bahr :-), which hosts my mermaid shop and a native american group too.
Today I work as sim and event manager at Roma centro, another italian sim, whose owner is Abal Allen. I’m also specialized in underwater landscaping and low prim ethnic furniture.
But what is Second Life for me? That’s what I put on my profile: “Second Life is what you want to be: a dream, a nightmare, a hidden and different life, an escape from reality. But I’m sure about what it isn’t: a game or just a chat. I choose to be myself, some people say my avatar looks like me. That’s what I want, simple using the metaverse as part of the real Manuela who there can spread her own imagination wings
.:| Manuela Collas |:.