Looking Forward, Looking Back! My SL10B Exhibit!

[UPDATE: Now complete with a link to the actual place!
Hi everyone! I haven't posted here in ages!

I built a special exhibit for this year's Second Life birthday celebrations called "Yesterday Once More"!

It has lots of pictures which might not load 'cos lag etc so I thought I would put them here also. And for those strange people not in Second Life?

They are things I have learned in Second Life in my 7 years there and some of my favourite memories. Sorry they're square n squashed but that was required for SL10B rules!

Melody's Bucket List!

1. To make a Bucket list!

2. To put a bucket on Justin Bieber's head!

3. To get one bucket of every colour!

4. To open a bucket shop to sell all of my buckets and make heaps of money!!

5. To get more buckets to put all my money in!

6. To find a golden ticket in a chocolate bar n go and see Willy Wonka like Charlie Bucket!

7. To get more buckets to put all my free chocolate in!

8. To finish writing my bucket list! To finish writing my bucket list!

9. To do all the things on my bucket list!

10. To think of a tenth thing!

How they built Stonehedge!

There are lots of ideas about how they made Stonehedge but what I think is it must have been back when there were still giants and really all Stonehedge is is a game of dominos they forgot to finish! The spots have rubbed off over the years but I think it would have looked something like this originally!

(somebody must have stolen the dice!!)

If I was an Indian on the Grand Canyon!

One thing I noticed at the Grand Canyon was there were squirrels everywhere so hopefully if I was an Indian living there I would still have my Cyril with me! I expect they would call me Talks With Squirrels or something 'cos he's on my shoulder all the time! They didn't have TV or ham sammitches so I don't know what I'd do with myself all day but I expect I would find something! Maybe I would draw in the sand or on the rocks cos I like drawing! They used to live in teepees which are pointy tents not giant toilet rolls! We could tell stories around the fire at night but they didn't have marshmallows so I don't know what we'd have with our hot chocolate! But I don't think it would be too boring!

Here's some pics I took when we were there!

Crocodiles!

At first I thought these were alligators but I didn't know the difference between alligators and crocodiles and I just read that alligators are only native to America and China so I guess these must be crocodiles as they were in Africa!

They are a reptile and live near water and are thought to be over 200 million years old!! which means yep they survived whatever killed the dinosaurs! So it is probably true what they say "never smile at a crocodile!" because they have probably seen a lot! Crocodiles are very dangerous to people but this doesn't stop some people from killing them for their skin and even to eat their meat! We were at a very safe distance from these crocodiles on our trip… in fact I was one of the only people to spot them! :)

Free Ice Cream!

If I was to make my own ice cream it would be called Free Ice Cream! Because all ice cream should be free! The flavours would be decided by the taster! I would have to get Willy Wonka involved because he knows how to do things like that. When you took a scoop or lick of the ice cream you would imagine what flavour you wanted and that would be what taste it would be! The colour would also change like a chameleon to perfectly complement its surroundings!!

Okay if this was not possible I would settle for the best most creamiest strawberry you have never ever tasted yet, it would be the perfect pink colour not too hot or pale and I would call it Melody's Dream :)

My Favourite Sim!

There is only one sim I can really say in answer to this though there are lots of sims that I love. But my favourite of all is the one I call home: Isla Desirae :) It even makes me smile to say it! It is the prettiest name for a sim I have ever come across and that was just one reason I chose to move my entire beach there from yuckkkky-named Metellus!

I first went there because I liked going to its owner Kim Seifert's live concerts. She's one of the best singers in SL even tho she doesn't sing much anymore. One day she invited me to look around the island and it was amazing! I saw that some parts were up for rental and though it took me awhile to decide (even though Metellus had a horrible name it still felt like home and had lots of memories!), the rest is history!

(that's me when I was thinking about moving!)

There are lots of changes happening on Isla Desirae right now - for instance, lots of horsies just moved in next to me! And a plaza has also been built next door! They are going to have lots of hunts I was told. But my favourite place (except my beach! hehe) is staying the same - that is the middle of the island where there is a park with a Paradise Blanket and tons of SL art that Kimmee has collected. There is also a lovely venue that island residents are allowed to use.

My place is called Harmony Beach. It is the building that looks like a present in the pic up top (it's pink so you probably guessed that already!!) It is on the East side of the island so gets good sunsets and sunrises! I designed and built it all by myself! It's called The Gift of Music and it has a music hall downstairs and a big movie screen upstairs with real cinema seats and popcorn and candy and ice cream and a bar! Next to that I have another patch of land which is empty right now but I usually put themed things in there for the season like in summer I built a Woodstock stage to go there and at Christmas Narnia!

Anyway, for all these reasons, my favourite sim is ISLA DESIRAE! (I also love Here, Livingtree, and Oceanside of course too!!!)

If there were bugs in the salad?!?!?!

hehe well this was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about eatin bugs! Timon and Pumbaa in The Lion King make eatin bugs look like fun like they would taste like jelly worms and stuff but I kinda doubt that's what they taste like for real!! But I heared a cook on the TV last week say that soon we will be eatin more insects like it's a normal thing to do he even put fried worms on a pizza for some kids AND THEY EATED IT! He had put ketchup in the worms though so I think that was sorta cheatin. Anyway… MAYBE you could get me to eat ONE worm just to try if it had ketchup in it like that. OR if I was a cartoon lion. But if I was just expectin regular salad?? OHMYGOSH YOU ARE FIRED MR.!!

What really bugs me!

What bugs me most is when a boy or a girl thinks they are somehow the same as ALL other boys and girls just because they are boys or girls too! Everybody is different and I have found lots of boys understand girls' things and lots of girls understand boys' things and everything in between! So I wish people would stop saying "it's a boy/girl thing" about certain things 'cos it's just silly. If YOU'RE doing it, then it's just a YOU thing and that's all! And don't let being a boy or a girl stop you from doing something just because it's considered a boy/girl thing either! People waste so much time worrying about what boys or girls should do… the only thing you should do is whatever feels most right, 'cos nobody asked you when you were born what you wanted your body to look like!

My Favourite Time of Day!

The time I like most is nighttime!

Most people go to sleep at night so the world is much quieter and there's less stuff going on so I don't feel like I'm missing anything! So I can spend time with myself and my thoughts in peace! I am always the last person to go to sleep because of this… 'cos I don't like missing anything!

If I could give one piece of advice!

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." - Oscar Wilde

If I could give one piece of advice it would be for everybody and it would be this: Be yourself, be yourself, be yourself! I said it three times and that's still not enough! I know people say this all the time but too often they are people who are really not being themselves! so "be yourself" has kinda lost its meaning but that only makes it more important! Be yourself! For real. Not the person you think people want you to be (you're probably wrong anyway!) Not the person you'd like to be (you can work on that tomorrow!) The person you really are deep down. Stop everything else and work on finding out who that is. Then be that, own it, and find people who will love it! 'Cos guess what, nobody else can be you!

Also if it ever gets hard (and it might -people get scared of people who have their own mind!) remember this!

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." - André Gide

"You see Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this…

…yet allow themselves to be treated as that…"

Trees and Traditions!

I love Christmas!

I have tons of trees both RL and SL! Lemme start with last night which was THE BEST 'cos they lit up the big tree in SL and we went to see it from school!

Also the school rocks because we got to pick a free tree of our own! I picked a bendy one because it looked funny… here is me lookin' around the trees!

I have lots of traditions at Christmas… I love Christmas music and movies! Lemme see my faves are these:

But my favourite thing of Christmas (except for pressssieeeees!) is probaly the food!!!! on Christmas Eve we have ham and pickles and things… on Christmas morning we have chocolate croissants… for christmas dinner we sometimes have beef but this year we havin proper traditional Turkey!! I make desserts… this year I am makin a trifle and chocolate pots and a pumpkin pie… and of course there is lots of candy and things too hehe also mince pies and christmas pudding and christmas cake and omg I am gonna burst just thinking about it!!

Oh yeh one more pic hehe this is our tree in RL! Well this is how it looked last year, we havent put it up yet this year!

ohmygosh so many pics in one post lol sorry!! XD

What I did for Thankgiving Weekend!!

Well like I said in the last entry I am not American but I kinda celebrate Thanksgiving cos I love it! On Thursday I watched movies!! I watched Pieces of April and Home for the Holidays and Addams Family Values and Planes Trains and Automobiles (oh my the fairies that stop naughty words going in my ears were SWARMING in one scene of that one!!) I also had a turkey and stuffing and sausage and bacon and cranberry sammitch and made a pumpkin pie which was awesome!!

I had stupid RL work friday and Saturday but on Sunday my sister and her boyfriend came home and the whole family went to see Harry Potter at the movies! It was such a sad movie :( But I loved it. After that we went for an enormous meal at a restaurant. I had a squuuuuge burger hehe. It was an awesome weekend!

What I Am Thankful For

It is Thanksgiving and I love this holiday even tho I am not American because I love America and I have a lot to be thankful for. This year I am most thankful for the good people and things that keep going despite it havin been a difficult year. I'm talking about SL and RL and personal and worldly things and everything. And I am even more thankful for the silly belief I have that if we just keep workin at and towards the things we love and live for, for truth and what we all know is right, even when they don't feel worth continuing, then actually the best is yet to come instead of behind us. I hope that made sense because it is very important to me.

(I stoled this picture I don't know who henzel is lol)

How I Get to School!

From the Melody Paperdoll files! Do not share with ANYBODY!! Click for larger version!

My First Day!

I loved my first day back! I couldn't wait to see Miss Nevy again. I was scared there would be too many people but some people didn't come so there were just right number of people! We had to bring something that represented us and I brought my pigeon and told his story which made people laugh which made my story mean even more! One day I will maybe put that story here :)

What I like and dislike about myself!

What I like and dislike about myself are actually the same thing! I am very different from other people and sometimes this is an amazing thing to be… in fact most of the time it is :) But some of the time it can be hard, in fact sometimes so hard it makes me wish I wasn't. A lot of people don't get along with me because I am different and even though I know that they aren't worth worrying about it doesn't stop me being sad that they don't like me. But in the end it only makes the ones who DO like me even more special. So it's really all for a reason :)

Why I chose Oceanside…

Going to Oceanside was a total no-brainer for me as not one but two of my favourite teachers in the world, Miss Nevy and Mr Jace, were going there too. I tried at another school (which shall remain nameless!) twice and it always went wrong for me and if I am honest if it weren't for these teachers I would have given up on school altogether.

Though there are lots of nice people I have met in class etc, and we have fun learning and playing and things, I am really only there for them because I don't make many friends and I count Miss Nevy and Mr Jace among the few people I feel 100% comfortable around. I hope this was not too corny speshly after the serious last journal hehe… I will try to be more fun in the next :)

I was scared…

Some people are scared of witches n monsters but I have found that actually witches and monsters can be okay sometimes. The thing that scares me most is things ending. In Second Life this means I get scared most when I think I might leave, or that someone I love might leave, or that Second Life might just disappear altogether. I am terrified of those moments where something gets said or done that makes everything different forever and you can't go back. This journal is short cos it's not nice to think about.

How I feel about Halloweeeeeeen!

Well if you have been reading my journal then you already know I LOVE HALLOWEEN! lol :) Let me think what else to tell you about it. Here's what I will be doing this Halloween!

I sing in Second Life as well as bein' my cute little random self so I will be singing scary songs as much as possible! Well they are not berry scary but they have a scary theme like, Phantom of the Opera or Rocky Horror or hmmm oh yes I have one from Nightmare before Christmas!

I have tonnnnnns of costumes to wear and I will be trying to wear them all this month saving the best for Halloween! Off the top of my head I have a bloody bride, Sally and Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas, Hit Girl, the Bride from Kill Bill, lots of candy corn color dresses, oh and one I made all by myself which I am most proud of, Elphaba from Wicked.

I was hopin to build a scary house on my beach but I am not sure if I will have the time to do that this year. Instead I might bring out one of my old projects. Two years ago I made the Exorcist house and it's awesome, I justhope I can put it back together cos I took it down very quick LOL. If I have time this year I wanna make the Psycho house.

And finaaaally, this isn't SL but in RL I spend the whoooole of Halloween watching scary movies! I also eat candy corns and I make the BESTEST pumpkin soup. I carve a pumpkin or two too. Here is the one I carved last year:

So in case you didn't guess ... I LOVE HALLOWEEN! :)