What makes gamers keep gaming?

New trend this year do involve video games that grasp the attention of not only 21-year-olds but it went down in between 14-18 and such teenage groups are addict to playing these kind of games. Its interesting that the article mention game activities are similar to real-life activities suchs as overcoming obstacles, achieve specific goal and solving problems but the question that comes to mind is: Is it any helpful to the youngsters and the 21-year-olds who are into playing video games? How effective is it on their daily lives? I believe these video games are taking up much of their time when they have more improtant things to do like completing homeworks and focusing on school. Although, some parents tend to put it away during school days but it has a negative impact on kids. Parents tend to say "No video games on school nights just on the weekends" or "if you are doing good in school then you can play as long as you want". I tend to think this is not a good way of having them concentrate on school because they might just attend class for the sake of playing the video game. Its best if their is a  limited time on weekends for playing since some tend to play as long as they want and forget about completing their homeworks. Its something to think about for the sake of the kids though. Some kids tend to talk about it in school instead of paying attention in class. These days its interesting how new technology has changed so much in the world and has a huge impact on people. Although its just a game but their are cases where gamers tend to imitate what comes on the game in real-life. They have the habit of studying every move they use on screen for the games and apply it to real-life whenever they are playing around with friends or family members. Perhaps, thats the reason why they would always put a notice saying "PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" on some games but gamers nowdays hardly listens they want to try everything out in their own way. It is always better for parents to stick around whenever their gamers (kids who loves to play video games) are playing and make sure they pick out the games that can give them positive actions and something to learn from. I've read some critic on the impacts of video games and I tend to agree with some of them when they advice the parents to be sure to be present everytime their gamers play a game.

Trip to Dole Plantation (Another Field Trip filled in)

Last Saturday on the 4th i was suppose to attend the last class field trip but i was working and i couldnt make it. I work at Kamaaina Care and we took our school age kids to the Dole Plantation for the whole day to occupy their time and have them get an experience on the Dole plantation and where pineapples originated from in Oahu. Dole Pineapple Plantation is a very popular attraction that introduces over thousands of visitors a year to Oahu. Its a tourist complex consists of a gift shop, ornate gardens and a dole maze (which we tried so hard to figure out whether we should take the school age to go have fun going through the maze or not). Dole Pineapple Plantation's educationl tour emphasizes on agriculture, the history of pineapples in Hawaii and how it has changed fromt eh old day to the modern day. It offers tour at reasonables prize but since its on Kama'aina Care, we took the tour for free because the kids parents pay for everything. I've never been to a Dole Plantation that is why i went with the school age because i want to check it out and im so glad i did. If i hadn't go with them i would miss out on all the fun we had that day. We took the school age and most of them couldnt wait to get there. Its perfect for all ages so me and my othe co-workers think its best if we take the school age over there it'll be a great experience for them since most of them never been there. We usually take them to the zoo, water-park, diamond head to have fun but this time we took them to the plantation and i couldnt keep my eyes of them having so much fun. They offered us chopped pineapples for the school aged to taste and eat. The plantation was really neat and well organized. The workers there did a tremedous job in creating that place. Everything looks clean and it made me think that its a way of making their money producing pineapple to be sold to get money. It was a great visit though. We took a walk through its mini-gardens to get a close look at a variety of crops and plants being grown on the North Shore of Oahu. It was really awesome and im thinking of visiting the place again.
Aside from tour, the pineapple garden maze caught my attention. Honestly, i love playing maze games that comes on newspapers or maze books but never in my life have i've seen in person. Now that i went with the school age last saturday i couldnt believe my eyes. It was my first time seeing a maze in real life and how it looks like. I've heard stories about people getting lost in the maze which frightens me to take a shot at it but i was still shocked at the size of the maze. Its like once you enter it you'll be lost forever or something. Well those are just my personal thoughts but im sure if anyone take a shot at it he/she will find their way out. Once we got to the maze two of our school age  boys begged us because they wanted to go through the maze and we were suprise that they find their way out. The amount of school age kids we took that day was 20 altogether but only six had the courage to try out the maze with one of our co-worker. The tour guide explained the maze to us. He said that the pineapple garden maze was built from 11,400 Hawaiian plants. Visitors can practice their navigational skills while having fun seeking the six hidden stations located within the maze. Also, he mention people getting lost in the maze as it covers 2 acres and contains 1.7 miles of pathways. It usually takes 30 minutes to walk through the maze but i was never interested. Its better to wait for the kids then get lost in the maze and have them wait for me. I just though its not a good idea for now because we brought the kids along. It was good seeing them have a good time and it was a great experience for me to visit such an interesting and amazing place. I wanted to go back to try the maze myself but i'll see if i can fit it in my schedule or maybe when school is done. As the kids are running off and into the maze it was really tempting and as much as i wanted to followed them i didnt. I still got the expression of "please dont get lost in there" keeps kicking me in the head so i stayed and waited for them. We left the plantation 15 minutes after it was closed. One of the workers informed us that we can have 15 more minutes because they can see the kids are having so much fun. After our visit we went back to Makaha Resort (where we worked) and waited for their parents to come pick them up. It was great listening to them laughing, smiling and telling their parents that they had so much fun at the dole plantation and that they want to go back just for the maze. I, too, want to go try it out and hopefully one day i get to visit there and walk through the maze. Im glad i took the chance to visit the dole plantation on a work basis and i had so much fun too.

Church get-together every last sunday of every month (Field Trip Alternative)

Not being able to attend field trip on Sunday due to going to church i was asked to use one of my church experience or church functions to fill in for my field trip. For every last Sunday of every month our church in Kunia called "Vaipuna o le ola" in translation in english its "Fountain of life." The Reverends from each  church included our Reverend put together this get-together that is held in Kalihi to talke among themselve about the status of church functions and how everything is going on. The get-together only has three different churches attending. Involving in this get-together are the church from Waimanalo, Honolulu, Kalihi and my church. The idea is to hear about the concern from other churches and tend to help them out and provide whatever they need such as food, money or anything. For someone who just moved here and experience something like this i was surprise yet motivated to not miss it because its interesting how they keep up with the religious status and church functions. In relation to the course, religion and environment stood out the most because i can see that everyone are working together and trying to keep everything balance and that not one church would slack off. I was grew up as a Christian and im so proud that i was brought up in a religion that fits the kind of person i am. I tend to help out with those who needs help and atteding this get-together i can see that people do care about one another and they would never leave them behind to catch up. They rather help out to make them stand equally with them in church activities and religious functions.
During thanksgiving, we always have a morning prayer in our church to give thanks to our heavenly father for his blessings upon us each and everyday and after the prayer, we would gather food (Samoan food only) from different church. For this event, we dont use imported goods such as meat, pork, etc. We believe its better to give thanks offering everything from the land and the sea because its the first and only thing Samoan people depend on long time ago before imported goods were invented. So, for that gathering we only used taros, bananas, breadfruits, etc. from land and different kind of eaten sea species we can get for the offerings. It really interesting how other church contribute with a large amount of offerings to complete our traditional way of Thanksgiving. I really enjoyed attending it because not only do i get to experience how its done i can see that the cycle of life does work the same way in the religious field. I mean, people go church to worship him and thank him for his neverending love,care and blessings upon us each and every day. In return, he nourished the land and sea for enough food for the people to survive. I had a great time atteding it and i wont miss any of it because not only its interesting to watch how people communicate and interact i can also see them working together trying to build their religious activities to make sure everything is going okay with not only one church but all the other churchs who are attending the get together. I am thankful that i was given the opportunity to use my church activity to be one of the alternative for the field trip. I really appreciate it.