Video Games.

One thing I have failed to mention in my previous post was my love for video games. Since I was a child, I have enjoyed only one franchise of video games, and typically for your usual young girl, it was The Sims franchise.  At the age of 10, my Dad bought me a PS2 with The Sims console version on it, after I had played The Sims on PC at a friend's house with her sister.
I was hooked instantly, and played The Sims majorly on console, but for my 12th birthday, I got The Sims 2 on PC and spent majority of my weekends in the freezing office, mainly watching my Sims' houses burn.... (I'm not an arsonist, honestly) and lots of other crazy stuff. I then purchased The Sims 3 in high school, and that's where things started to go downhill with the computer. I spent a lot of time downloading extra content and keeping up with my now dead blog 'turtlelover2009simsblog', which in all truth, is a bit...bad. The computer eventually died on me, and without any of our laptops being able to handle iTunes, let alone The Sims, I eventually had to sell all my games.

I left video games aside for a while, until last February, where I was on a school trip to watch a Drama production. An old friend from the year below, Ulysses was sat in front of me and bored, I began to chat to him. All of a sudden, a boy much smaller than Uly (not exactly difficult, as he *is* 6 foot 7 inches) popped his head up, mostly consisting of long, thick hair. Seriously, he was more hair than head. He introduced himself as Tom, and we chatted as Uly pulled his smooth flirting moves with the older girls in my year. Either way, Tom began enthusing about a franchise of video games called Final Fantasy, a franchise he was shocked to hear I'd never heard of. We chatted about video games for most of the two hour journey, and he recommended all sorts of franchises to me.

I began playing Final Fantasy and found myself again, hooked. I had no idea that RPG games would appeal to me, and then I started getting into Zelda and then Metroid, and I still ask for Tom's advice regarding his best subject : Video Games. So, Tom, I thank you for getting me into all these cool games, and your advice is well-rounded and reliable.

(Bonus fact #1 - Tom also got me into Skype, where I became closer to my best friend, Uly, and also introduced me to most of my new awesome friends--which will probably be talked about later.)

Until next time,
Amy.