Relay for Life camp in Second Life

INSIDE EACH OF US IS A TINY WORLD

I spent the most wonderful afternoon exploring the FFC campsite at the RFL in SL. Our campsite encompasses an entire region and has been brilliantly built by talented creators. Zander, Lauren, Felix and Grafix not only created a beautiful looking camp but made it educational and therapeutic too.

Pictures and information from the camp will tell the story:

Inside each of us is an amazing world

“There is a world within each of us…a world where the smallest things wield incredible power…a world where nothing is bigger than HOPE!”

Welcome to Anatomica: City of the Hero Cell!!

We begin this adventure by meeting the Hero Cells. Our Hero Cells are white blood cells, the key players in the body’s immune system.

Meet the Hero cells

And we continue to learn and train for our Hunt for the Nemesis!

Time to learn how to recognise the enemy

Learning who is good and who is bad.

Amazing creations help us train for our Blood Stream Mission

EEEPS!

The time has come…

You are now entering the battle zone

Wow!!! A chemo-missile equipped cell to ride!

Training done, armour on and ready for battle

This blood stream is utterly amazing.

Tumor alert

Take aim….FIRE!

Another one bites the dust!

I can’t believe how much pleasure I got out of blasting the bad guys to bits and watching them disappear :):):) This is an incredible visualisation tool and oh so therapeutic 🙂

To be continued…

One (small) World! One (BIG) Hope! Until there is a cure WE RELAY!! Your support matters http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2

1 person dies of cancer every 4 seconds in this world – every day

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Relay For Life in Second Life

Wow you have to see this to believe it!

On July 18th Relay for Life in SL takes place. The track and team camps span 37 sims, that’ s over 1.5m square metres of virtual real estate. Team camps range from small plots of land to an entire region of just over 65,000 square metres. Friends Fighting Cancer have a whole region called Anatomica, which I’ll show you more of later.

Each square is a 65,000 square metre region

Each of the 120 plus RFL Teams has spent weeks and months planning their build (camp), each with a special theme to help raise awareness and funds to fight cancer.

The cancer survivors and carers lap will follow a pathway around all these regions. When I first joined the FFC team I was told stories of past walks, listened to tales of the friendships made and the tears of joy and sadness that were shed. And the strength, peace and comfort people found in the company of those who understood. Yet still I didn’t register for the walk of honor.

Why was I reluctant to stand with the other survivors? Well, I believed that what you thought most about you would attract into your life – so I wasn’t going to focus on a disease I had been treated for and left behind me. Sheesh even my poor doctors have to drag me in for checkups! It’s amazing how forgetful you can become when you want to 🙂

Working and meeting all the passionate, strong and caring people these past couple of months. Listening to others who had taken the same journey and especially those who are still fighting their own battle, gave me the courage to sign up to walk that lap as a survivor.

Luminaries line the track ready for purchase

In the company of these heros and heroines I discovered that cancer was not something you just accepted as part of life, something you got, dealt with and if you were lucky put behind you. I learned that by sharing we grow stronger, we give hope and most of all we do NOT have to accept cancer as part of life – we CAN fight back.

One person dies of cancer every four seconds in this world – every four seconds of every day.

We can start saving lives now: http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2

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4 days to go – I’m getting so excited

Seems my birthday is going on for a long time this year. It began last week when an early pressie arrived from the UK 🙂 Continues this week as we climb toward the birthday wish goal.

And two days ago we held the coolest birthday party in the virtual world of Second Life celebrating all our friends July Birthdays. We gathered from all over the globe to laugh, sing, dance and chat on Star Journey Island.

Dancing in the clouds

Guests of honor included Richard Geer (Starman Heron), author of Star Journey, yours truly and team member Lisa Ellis (Beda Wilder).

Our friends, Sammy from Germany. Claudine and Otto from the USA had created a fantastic surreal party area where we could dance in the clouds or under the sea. Tamra Hayden (Tamra Sands) entertained us for an hour streaming in with her beautiful voice.

Tamra live

I love the magic and sheer creativity of this virtual world (Second life), whatever you imagine you can create it. It’s a place where a meeting of hearts, minds and common goals is more important than if you were young or old, fit or unwell, rich or poor.

Whoot! Lookie here - no breathing gear

Sort of reminds me of cancer, that too is a great leveler and brings together a truly diverse group of people. I have met and continue to meet so many amazing and wonderful people which is just another reason why I know we will reach my birthday dream.

Your gifts are creating more magic birthdays

HUGEST HUGS and THANK YOU for your CONTRIBUTIONS
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Making miracles happen

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