User:Zai Lynch/Old Profile

About me

I was born to SL on January 25th 2007 and hit one of the old Orientation Islands for German residents, like Goethe or Hesse. In the beginning of my Second Life, I was quite lost. It took me some days to make friends who helped me to find my way. But I got to add that the waiting and searching was worth it, 'cause I found some of the greatest and most polite people around.

One of them, Lum Pfohl, got an awesome and very helpful page around the corner. Furthermore, she was the one who pushed me to become a volunteer. Thank you!! On January 10th 2008, I was accepted to become an apprentice Mentor, visited the initial orientation session the same day and been moved to the Mentors group one day after. By now, I'm in the Linguist, Scribe, Buddy and Apprentice Buddy role, so feel free to drop me an IM any time, if you got a concern where I might help you with. If I'm not responding, I'm afk :-P
My favourite mentoring places are the Orientation Islands, where naked ruthed newbies are popping up all the time and got no idea how to change their hair. It's so much fun to answer questions out there or guide them through their first steps and see 'em find their way.

Me and my teddy

If I'm not trying to help new residents, I'm most probably foolin' around with Lum, Kaname (*pokes*), Trin, Woo, Jen, Fizz, Kuraiko (*purrs* ^^), Jayme (miss ya...), (...), or some of the crazy and lovely Mentors like Shiva, Asri, Bacu (it's gettin geeky in here...), Nava, (...). I met so many great people in SL that it's actually quite difficult to mention just a few so plz don't nail me on this digest. I luv ya all!

I'm a collector of Linden Teddys and got my first one from Sidewinder who almost knocked me down with a fast red car while he was testing a new client and while I was searching for Enus hidden Teddy in Linden Village. I read in Mia's profile that she would love to trade her teddy for a resident one, so I started to reactivate my building ~~skills~~ disabilitys and made my Zai Teddy. As you can see in the picture, he loves the Free Hugs Campaign as much as I do. You never heard of the Free Hugs Campaign? Oh my... Have a look at the awesome YouTube video and you'll be moved to tears. At least that's what I'm feelin' every time I watch it and I watched it many times!

As a Minesweeper addict, I'm ceaselessly trying to break CG Lindens highscore in front of his home in Linden Village. Moreover, I'm a fan of old fashioned board- and computergames adopted in SL like Chess or SLtris and such. Have a look at the Avatarum and play a Mastermind competition with Gal, who owns the place and created the game!

While I'm speaking of places: I L O V E all this sightseeing stuff in SL. Like the Rezzable Sims (Greenies Home, The Black Swan or the Collectors Gallery), science related places (The International Spaceflight Museum or The Splo) and many more. Have a look at sightseeings subpage in my quicklinks for some hints. Additionally, there are great concerts going on. And everyone should watch a show of the virtual band called U2 in SL at least once!

Jen was so generous to furnish a little place for me on her land where I stored some freebies. Have a look at Stadtrand and make sure to explore the area around! Furthermore I wanted to add that I don't have to sleep under bridges anymore since Shiva is sharing her flat with me. Thank you so much!

That's it for now. You read it all? Wowy...

Apprentice Mentor Shadowing

In case you are an Apprentice Mentor searching for an Apprentice Buddy to shadow you, please have a look at the Buddy Center in SLVEC and in the Category:Apprentice Buddies.

You've chosen meeeee to shadow you? Oh my, you're sure you wanna do that? :-P
OK, so here is a description of what my shadowing sessions look like:

It is basically a roleplaying game. I will TP you to the Volunteers OI next to SLVEC, being dressed like the girl next door and pretending to be the helpless and confused newbie (who I'm still at times, so it's not that much of pretending *coughs*). Now it's your task to guide me through my difficulties. These are all basic newbie questions. No knowledge about advanced (or even basic) building or scripting required, no difficult land problems or all that stuff. We'll try to simulate an every day experience you'll have by mentoring at an Orientation Island. Don't be afraid. I'm not trying to show you up. My goal is it to make you realize what you know and what you don't know and to provide tipps on how to improve your mentoring. So we'll analyze the roleplaying afterwards, trying to figure out where we can tweak to enhance the new residents experience with you as a Mentor.
If you would like to prepare yourself prior the shadowing, please have a look at my Mentoring 101.

Waaaahhhh Wiki?!

Uh oh... please calm down ^^
The Wiki might look like a riddle wrapped up in an enigma when you're unexperienced with this kind of stuff but it's really not that bad if you give it a chance. So if you'd like to create a new userpage for example, please have a look at the wonderful Quickie Wiki Intro written by Lum Pfohl. Furthermore, you'll find a neat documentation of Wiki syntax at the Mediawiki Help Pages and even one of Torley's awesome Video Turorials features the Wiki. In case you really don't like Wikis and just want to create a userpage (or any other article) and rush out again as fast as possible, there are still Mentor Scribes who would love to help you. And guess what? I'm a Scribe. So just drop me all the content you would like to see displayed at your page and I will wikify it for you. So what are you waiting for?

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