Practicum 3: Tyla

Over Thanksgiving break I had the opportunity of playing a lot of Xbox, but with different gamertags and avatars this time! My brothers have an Xbox Live account, they are younger than me...Max is in college and Race is still in high school. Usually whenever my brothers wanted me out of their rooms (because I pry, I want to know about their girlfriends and give them advice..big sister stuff) all they would have to do is turn the Xbox on. Ha, that no longer works due to my new-found obsession with video games. So after a lot, I'm talking a LOT, of pressuring them to let me play just one game, they caved.

"Schmogmander" is the boys' gamertag, I didn't ask. From there, we played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...unfortunately this COD has no zombies:/ When Race and I played, my other brother was still at school, but we played with him on Live...so all of us were playing! I wasn't great, which was unfortunate because I really wanted to impress my brothers, prove them wrong. However, although I didn't have as many kills as normal and died a few more times than I normally do, I was playing alright. I knew all about the guns, what buttons did what, and all about the different matches. Needless to say, I felt pretty cool. We played Team Deathmatch, so the object is to kill as many people from the other team as possible. They come back to life after you kill them, but you want the most points and you get the points by shooting other people. Surprisingly I'm kind of good at headshots and we get extra points for that. (It's never intentional that I shoot the enemy in the head, they're just really close to me by the time I shoot them.) My brothers were a bit frustrated with me because I wasn't as good as them, actually I was the worst one playing in that match because at the end of the game they ranked us...but I did pull some weight.

The best part about playing Xbox with my brothers, besides the bonding time, was that they stuck up for me. I had the headset on and when people talked shit to me, the inappropriate stuff, my brothers would interject. I think it was a bit much for them though, because the next game we muted the players so we couldn't hear them and their gross comments pertaining to me.