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Do you want to meet people from other countries? Do you want to have friends from around the world? It's easy...if you know how.

Foreigners want friends too, but we don't try to find friends. Friends come from spending time with each other. So don't rush friendships.

What is your purpose for making friends? To help you speak English better? Just to have fun? Or do you need help with something?

It's easier to make friends when you and he or she want the same thing. Do you both like music? Maybe you both like reading or art. Join a group that has something you enjoy doing in Second Life.

And Finally, and this is REALLY important, don't add them as a friend until you make a plan to meet again. For example, "OK Kenji. I'll see ya later. Have a good one" means, maybe you will see him. Whereas, "OK Kenji. I gotta go. Will you be here tomorrow? I'll see you then" means, I like you and next time we can become friends.

Never say:
Will you be my friend? ("Can I add you a friend?" is OK)
I want to practice my English. (I hate that one. I feel like a robot.)
Can I see you again? (Might be ok...but not really with an English teacher)

When saying goodbye it's best to say:
It was nice meeting you.
I hope to see you again.
Have a good morning/day/evening/night.
See you again.
Take care.
Have a good one. (guys)

Don't be too aggressive. Take your time. Slowly and surely you will find good friends that will last a lifetime.

HEY! Wait...I have an idea. Come to Cypris Chat and meet friends. LOL!

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cypris%20Village/155/100/24

Website: http://cypris.ning.com


  

Finally!

The website is being translated. I can finally join the community! Yay! BUT this also means a lot of other English speakers from around the world will join. That will be difficult to manage. You can expect to see A LOT of spam coming soon. New English speaking members should be pre-approved before being accepted into the community.

I also notice there is a link to ENGLISH (unfortunately not SLMaMe) on the top right. It takes me to Metaverse.jp. What's that? What's Metaverse.jp? Is it an OpenSim grid? Do you actually have currency working? Are people really using it?

I found this on the staff blog site:

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2009年11月02日
METAVERSE.JP is a portal site for the metaverse, featuring content from the largest Second Life and Open Simulator community in Japan.

- What can I do at METAVERSE.JP?

You can read or write blogs (SLMaMe), purchase and sell virtual items on a marketplace (Metacommerce), and find information from the metaverse community. We plan to keep adding English information, so stay tuned! Get started by registering an account now!
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Interesting. So Metaverse offers a place between Second Life and, I'm guessing, other OpenSim based worlds where one can buy and sell virtual goods. So if I make something in SL and want to sell it from my island in Reaction Grid can I post it for sale here? I mean, for example, if I sell something in SL I have to get an xstreet product dristributer and rez it on my land inworld. What if I want to sell Metaverse products? Can I rez a Metaverse product dispenser in Reaction Grid?

I'll have to watch this one. hmmmm.