Coming Back from Reality to Virtual Reality

I started off on Help Island today. I explored the rest of Help Island without that much patience, because I feel like I am under the gun, like students feel when they are getting "tested" all the time. I had read alot this weekend about Second Life from a book I bought for the group Second Life, The Official Guide. Once you decide to leave Help Island, you cannot come back. This felt like going from a place where I received consistent 24/7 assistance to a place, where I would have to search out assistance. This was a very humbling appearance. By default, I get sent to the Ahern Welcome area. By what was described in the book, it sounded like a very safe, welcoming area. In contrast, it reminded me of the areas of NY, where you are exposed to all that New York has to offer, good and bad. Since I knew another "welcome" area to go to, New Citizens area on the island of Kuula, I teleported there. I was now back in "assistance" paradise. Kuula had a lot of helpful advice, but not as much free stuff as Help Island. I don't really have the time, need, or patience to read all the notecards that were given to me. Before I get to my lesson, which I partially started today, I made my first friend, Quill Noel, from Tokyo, Japan. It was interesting to note my American presumptioness against her Asian humility. Is that PC? Don't really know, but we discussed it though the language made it difficult. I believe there would be even better communication between children of different cultures and languages in Second Life. After leaving her, I found this place called New Builders Plaza.
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This first picture is New Builders Plaza on the island of Kuula. The plaza is in the sky. It gives you measurement tools on a 3-D level so that you can build objects with specific measurements. As you can see I went to the Build button, and built a right triangle that was 5.5 m by 5.5 m. Unless you specify otherwise, your triangles are going to have the same base and height.

Now, I am sitting on a couch that makes me 3 meters tall. Can you figure out might height of my UPPER BODY, given that I am sitting on the highest part of the couch, which is 1.3 meters tall?

In picture four, How tall do I look to you? Please make a guess.

I am still standing against the wall but I have moved into the middle of the big half circle, and I am looking straight up. Oww!! My neck hurts from bending all the way back.

To be continued!