Events - Relay For Life starting Saturday July 18th.

Below is the Schedule for the Relay For Life Theme Laps.

Saturday, July 18, 2009 (All times are SLT)

• Noon - Opening Ceremonies
• 1pm - Survivor / Caregiver Lap (pre-registration required)
• 2pm - Team Spirit Lap - Team Shirts & Banners
• 3pm - One World - International Outfits Lap
• 4pm - One Hope - Rainbow Lap - The Hope of a New Day.. The Promise of Calm after the Storm. Wear all the Colors of the Rainbow and Celebrate One Hope
• 5pm - Power Hour Lap - 60's outfits
• 6pm - Tackle It - football, rugby or any sports clothing. Let's tackle cancer together - united we can beat this.
• 7pm - Western Theme Lap
• 8pm - Bald Is Beautiful Lap
• 9pm - Luminaria Ceremony (only for Luminaria participants)
• 10pm - Magic Lap - Wizzards, Magicians, Fairies - Make A Wish and Day we will beat cancer.
• 11pm - Tacky Tourist Lap

Sunday, July 19, 2009

• 12pm - Midnight Masquerade
• 1am - Health Matters - Maybe you are a banana, or an organge, or a carrot. Live A healthy life - we can all make a small change that improves our life.
• 2am - Crazy Shoes Lap
• 3am - Meet A New Friend Lap
• 4am - Silly Hats Lap
• 5am - Tinies, Furies, Tails & Wings
• 6am -Fight Back Ceremony
• 7am - Caring & Curing Lap - Dr, Nurse, Scientist - Working together to beat cancer.
• 8am - Coffee Curlers, Slipers & PJ's
• 9am - Here Comes The Sun - Dress for a day at the beach. Always remember to protect yourself from the sun on land and sea even on a cloudy day
• 10am - Formal Wear Lap
• 11am - Closing Ceremonies (Teams Lap to follow)

Relay for Life 2009

Last year I was honoured to take part in Relay For Life 2008, fundraising for American Cancer Society. This is its' fifth year in Second Life and to date 220,000 USD has already been donated.
Last year Sara Carr and I built an entire sim, this year we have a smaller plot for our display of about an eighth of a sim.
The theme is "One World, One Hope" and our plot is based around research for cancer treatment and cures, the Hope part, and that many of those have been discovered in various exotic and mundane places within the World, the World part. We are trying to show various creatures and especially the environments in which they live and breed. Living organisms such as Sea Squirts, Primrose, Yew, and mud loving Bacteria, many of which have developed their own forms of cancer prevention.
On the right is part of the build as of today. To give you an idea of scale, you can probably see me above the Andes in South America; the moon surface is 60x60m and the earth at the back takes up another 60x60m, I am hovering above the moons horizon and only half way into the build.
More information about American Cancer Society