Five looking for the French

For a friend Anoukh who speaks only French Five went on a mission. Find French people. Find nice places to visit and where you can have a chat in French. The first place we visited was a French shop, not much to do there. Five asked around, but only newbies were camping in chairs. They started asking Five how to earn money. Five told them that they actually don’t need any money. In the freebie places, for instance …….. you can find everything you need, flex hair, flex dresses. Only shoes are somehow more difficult to find, but Five found a few pairs of excellent prim shoes for free. So keep looking, there is free art, there are free houses, free outfits, what more do you want? Ok for boots in the desert you have to have money!

Well that is not the concern of my French friend at the moment. She is still floating around in SL not knowing what to do or what to say. To her everything is in English. Although working in the French version of Sl (as Five does, just to learn the terminology) you still get a lot of English pop-ups and messages. So Anoukh is in a world which is difficult to understand. Five helps her along, she will find her way.

In the search list, CTRL F, for find, after a bit of looking around, Five found a help island called Gaia, for French speaking avatars. Five thinks this will help Anoukh a lot. On Gaia some other tp’s were given of places much visited by the French. No wonder, these places are French by there very nature!

Paris around 1900,

Mount ST-Michel, Shivar

La France Pittoresque, a beachplace Seychelles,

Some of these places, Paris and the Seychelles, are really crowded with French people.

The Seychelles is a beach, hammock all over the place, really packed with French speaking people. The sim was overloaded, and went in a restart!

Paris is provided with the Eiffel tower, really a huge structure pointing right into the sky. It needs little comments, just go there yourself! (Don't be surprised to to see a giant elephant - didn't know they breeded them in Paris.)

The Mount st Michel is a SL copy of this small island totally covered by buildings and churches in France. The church on top has very colorful windows. The surrounding landscape is an extremely mountainous. Between th cliffs you can find cosy hide-out’s, one was equipped with a very nice writing desk. The chair gives you a pencil, and the animation of the chair is called: writing. Do sit down; this is really fun, because, with the pen in your hand, you make all kinds of silly movements, but never start writing at all! You make only thinking and wondering gestures, shifting from one side to the other in this wonderful chair. Five guesses the inspiration didn’t come. Really funny, lot’s of humor. (Humor which is so seldom seen in SL, but Five realizes that that’s the case for RL too.) Do notice the paintings on the wall; they are in between SL imagery and photos, very clever. Outside on a mountaintop is more than enormous statue of a man, a Greek God? Sometimes associations are built up, fantasies about the hidden meaning of a sim. This thinking about the hidden is really happening in this sim called Shivar……

Oh and indeed, the French like to speak, don't be afraid, wenn not speaking french, most of them speak english too!