I would not call myself a true gamer girl, I also love a lot of other things outside of gaming… Plus, I do not play ‘The real games’ as most guys tell me. As a kid I always played D&D with my brother and sister, Nintendo and GTA. Later in my life I turned to the games like Guild Wars, Overwatch, Nintendo, Minecraft and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Because of my obsession of the computer and other electronics I stayed home most of the time. My school was about two hours away from my house, so I also did not have a lot of friends in my hometown. This all created the situation that I sat in my room the most of the time, skyping with my best friends. Skyping turned into gaming with one of my best friends, Mark.

Me and Mark always had a very understanding and amazing friendship, we never fought and always had fun. We could turn to one another if there was something wrong, but we also understood if one of us wanted some space. We easily could go on for months with almost no contact and not make a big deal out of it. Yes, even in this modern area with WhatsApp the contact between us was hard, probably because he was not a big fan of texting and me neither. Our contact purely stood on Skyping and school, but after three years he had to change schools… After that our contact was based on skyping and gaming together, what wasn’t as bad… but you do miss the human contact, really seeing one another.

That is why we started a tradition, every Independence Day we would go to my house and celebrate together. This was because I had quite a big house and my balcony looked out over my whole village.