One Neat Life

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A World All For You

So today at my job (work at a summer SPORTS and FUN camp) I brought my laptop in because we were creating our own pokemon. I had a few pics that I had saved from google, and they were looking at them for reference, because we were having a create your own pokemon competition. After each group of 10 finished, one of the kids noticed a little icon on my desktop.

“HEY CHRIS, WHAT’S THAT?” yelled a few 10 year olds.

I thought to myself, hey why not, it’s fun and educational. I’ll show them how to build some things and we’ll see what they think.

So I log-in and set up. The plan was to build a replication of the building we were in, which kind of looks like this:

We get in, I kill a pig, knock down a tree with a piece of raw porkchop I got from the pig, and instantly the kids were hooked. We were venturing around the vast landscapes, admiring the rain on the beach coast, watching the squid swimming around in the water. I crafted a box and decided to build a boat and go find an island. We dug down, and started setting up our base-camp for our “man-cave”.

What it looked like:

What we looked like:

After setting up camp, we looked at our health bar bouncing.

So obviously, we had to cook our raw porkchops atop some fire. We built a furnace, then realized it was still night time, and probably wasn’t safe. So a 7 year old suggested we used some wool and make a pillow or bed. We give it a shot, it works. ( I knew it would, thanks internet) We sleep off the night, get back to work, and start mining more. We find a lava-fall, with a bunch of diamonds along the walls. Here are their reactions:

After I see these diamonds, I make a bridge over the lava, and work my way over to the wall of shimmering goodness. I take out my iron axe, and start mining away. Diamonds start dropping left and right, I scoop em up and make my way back, when I start hearing noises…kind of like a gurgle or someone chocking on old spaghetti. My hearts racing a little, I look to the left, nothing, then as I turn around for the exit, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. All reactions are accurate:

CREEPER IN MY FACE. DEAD. RESPAWN?…

We restart, create a wooden sword. We are ready to reclaim our lost base, and get vengeance. We kill spiders, skeleton archers, zombies, hordes of wolves, and we finally make it back to our “mancave”. I look around, all the kids are gleaming, happy to finally make it back home. High fives and lots of compliments are given, and we start working on a new tunnel. Thanks again minecraft, this was all within an hour and a half gaming session, the kids minds were blown. A kid even recounted the whole session to the owner of the sports complex in such detail, she was overwhelmed and said it was awesome. He even drew a sketch of boat down the river scenario and gave it to his dad when he got picked up. 

So yeah, if you haven’t tried playing this game with children you definitely should. It’s like your first time playing, on crack. So if you know anyone, whether it be a family friend, cousin, little sibling, neighbor, give it a shot. If you’re creepy, then don’t.

tl;dr: Got paid to play minecraft for almost 2 hours, kids loved it, good times.

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