Recreation and Summer

[Can you help me come up with a hook for this story?] Summer is a great time of the year for every person younger than eighteen because it is a time of year you have little to no responsibilities. You can sleep in, relax, hang out with friends or just do whatever you want all summer long. These are the reasons I love summer. My summer this year has been great because there was always something to do, whether it was playing games, to going to seeing a movie, to hanging out with friends. The majority of every one of my summers is spent on one thing, games. I was playing everything from Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo 64, to Skyrim on my computer, to Sega Superstar Tennis on the Wii. I am just relaxing on my bed shooting zombies rather than having Math, English, History, etc. I don’t need to go to an amusement park or visit another country to have an awesome summer, just give me a good game and I’m happy. Relaxing in your room and gaming is the definition of summer to me. I don’t think I can think of a summer with absolutely no gaming. Gaming helped make this summer great to me.

One of the best parts of the summer is getting to hang out with your friends. This year I got to hang out with friends more than normal making my summer even better. I got to hang out with them by Skype calling each other and playing Team Fortress 2. We would get together in person, and then we would go home and play and talk for hours more. Sometimes my friends, Austin and Brian would just start playing together and talking. We didn’t have to deal with the hassle of cleaning our rooms, driving to each other’s houses, and we could just be sitting there in our underwear on our beds. We could just hangout talk and have fun gaming together. Hanging out with friends is part of what made this summer great.

While friends and gaming made my summer better, every summer I game and hang out with friends. This year, however, my family and I went to see a whole lot of movies and