Another week is over and a new one is just about to begin, time for reflection.
I have told this many times but for any new readers out there I will do a bit of explaining. I work in a Private Day Nursery which covers the ages of three months to about five years, I look after a year and a half till two years. On Thursday we had parents evening, many of your parents at some point would have probably gone to one and been told how great or crap you are. Every six months we have a parents evening, every month I get super nervous and stressed up about it. I spend a couple of weeks writing notes on each of my key children (I currently have four) and jotting down every single piece of information that may provide a good conversation topic. But then when it comes to it I end up not needing it and the conversation just flows naturally. Each parents is allotted ten minutes, now as you may also be aware some people in life just don't get the hint. I ended up going over all of my appointments because I am not very good at telling parents to go away, but hey whatever I'm getting paid so might as well stretch it out. In conclusion it went rather well, a great weight has been lifted of of me knowing that I haven't got to do one for another six months.
With parents evening out of the way I could start to relax a little bit, being so frantic about parents evening left me little time to play any games or read any books or watch anything. I played some Minecraft during the week but I think I am yet again bored of Minecraft, I'm sure I will come back in a month or two and play it a bunch for a week or so and then come to the same ending. I watched the final episode of the second generation of Skins, I am overall very moved by the way it ended, having Freddie revealed to have been killed it was rather shocking. I will start the 3rd generation next week and will soon be caught up to where the show is currently. I then decided I should probably start a game, I haven't really touched anything since Mass Effect 3 (Apart from Minecraft and a little bit of Darksiders.) and it's kind of bugging me. I have a huge backlog and I haven't even touched any of the 19 games I got from the GAME sale yet. But i thought it would probably be best to pick something I already own and haven't finished yet, so I looked through my collection and decided on Driver: San Fransico.
I got it at launch and really liked it, It did however get lost in the other games that came out around that time and I didn't have a chance to get back to it. So over the course of the weekend I finished the game, it's been out a while so I will talk about the ending, so spoilers! So I really like the game, I liked the story and the fact that it got mad weird especially towards the end. I liked how there was a boss battle at the end that involved you throwing cars at Jerchcio in your mind while he was doing the same. I liked how a lot of the side stories panned out, those two racing students were pretty great. The driving controls did get frustrating at times and I even started shouting at the TV in a few spots. That game gets brutal towards the end and I mean brutal, but overall a good game that I would recommend to any fan of driving or puzzle games. 4 Stars.
And here we are at Sunday, The Hunger Games came out a few days ago and today is the day that I was going to go see it. It is such a coincidence because I started reading the series only a few weeks ago, not even knowing that a movie was being made. After I read it I posted it on Facebook about how much of a good book it was, a friend then asked me whether I was going to go and see it. This caused me to look on the interweb and there it was, The Hunger Games out in a few weeks. So it was good timing if nothing else, the book was still fresh in my mind and I think that helped me enjoy the movie better. Which by the way was fucking amazing!
I don't usually cry at movies, in fact I have never cried at the movies, but The Hunger Games changed that. For those that have not seen it I will not spoil anything, but if you are planning to go brace yourself for some emotional entertainment. The premise of the movie should tell you that anyway, I mean it's a movie about a group of children forced into a large arena and only one child may leave. It has a disturbing premise and had my sister in tears also, I even read the book and I was still in tears. The way the film was shot and its score or lack of score just built it up so much, when a character died you as a person really felt what the main character was going through. The Hunger Games is the best film this year, it is one of the best films I have seen in a while too. Considering i saw Breaking Dawn Part 1 for the first time last week and then this, The Hunger Games make it look like a bore, I mean I sort of enjoyed the Twilight books but that movie was pretty crap.
So there we are, a week in a blog, how was your week?
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