First days in SL

My first days in SL......I can't remember a whole lot, but there are a few things I remember very well:

I looked at all those avatars and thought: "How can it be that they all look so good and i am walking around in very ugly skirt?!" And of course there was the moving, everybody I saw was walking very sexy or beautiful and I was walking as....well I don't know as what, but it sure didn't look pretty or sexy.

Although being a newbee seems to be a great turn on for a lot of guys, in the beginning I thought I had stepped into some kind of great virtual world of sex! Most IM's I received were more or less something like this: "Hey, where you from? Wanna dance? Oh, you're so pretty, wanna fuck?" And believe me, I wasn't pretty! But somehow I guess they like a virtual virgin or something, I don't know.

After a few days I discovered Marketplace, but had no idea where or how to get money to spend there. But a bit of reading and searching did the trick. So i got myself a bikini and dress on Marketplace, but the rest of me was still what I began with.

Thank god there was a very nice guy who told me all about skin, shape and hair. He even went shopping with me a whole afternoon. Suddenly I looked a whole lot better, but I still had that ugly walk. And again I was lucky to ran into a very nice girl who showed me around in the world of animations and AO's. The fact that she was a vampire, but I didn't let her teeth come near my just bought new skin, didn't stop her from being nice.

I guess those first days with those two people started my shopping addiction in SL, SL has no secrets for me in this area! When I come to think of it.....my RL self isn't any better, lol.