What were your favorite games as a child? What did you like to do with your classmates or the neighborhood kids? How did that affect the person you grew to become?
I liked doing a lot of different things when I was a child. I liked playing hide and seek, I liked playing with my toys with my sisters (when we weren't fighting over the toys or having to clean up the toy room). I also liked reading and I had a pretty good imagination. Depending on where we were living, I did different things with the neighbour kids. When we lived on Green, I liked to ride my bike, and go over to my friend's house and play Super Nintendo. When we lived in Mission, we played hide and seek in the neighbourhood or climbed trees.
I think this partly affected the person I became because it made me love the outdoors. I'm not one of those outdoorsy people who goes around camping and hiking and skiing and fishing and everything all the time, but I love to walk through a silent forest with my iPod playing in my ear. I love watching the mountains go by as I'm driving between Edmonton and home. I love looking at and smelling flowers. I love watching the squirrels run around my back yard. I love being a biologist and being allowed and sometimes required to do these things.
I was a loner a lot when I was younger, so I read a lot. It also caused me to be able to entertain myself, which I think also contributes to who I am today. I enjoy sitting in bed or on the couch reading a book. Last night, I spent hours on the couch reading Emma by Jane Austen, and I loved it. I think it says something in today's world when so many people don't enjoy reading a good book. We feel the need to be stimulated all the time by our computers or games or television. I listened to music and read a book on a Friday night, and I loved it.
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