I am a Secondary Math Education major. I will be student teaching in the spring at one of the local high schools. That's background info. This story's about my co-op teacher, whom I found out plays and owns a DS. She owns two of them, actually. She's 53.

She brought up the subject, this morning before her first c**** started filing in (I was there to observe). I can't remember how or why. Oh yes. The word puzzles from the workshop we both went to yesterday evening. Anyway, she got to talking about how she owns nearly all the Brain Age / Flash Focus type games. And she really does own them. I don't own any of them myself, but she's 20 years old according to BA. She can't stand the sometimes inaccurate voice/symbol recognition, haha. At any rate, I was just surprised like crazy that she played a DS, let alone owned one (or TWO!!). When her grandson comes to visit, she breaks out the second DS and they play versus in Mario Kart and NSMB. He usually wins because she's not good at those kinds of games. She's always driving into trees and walls or getting the stars bashed out of her, haha.

I just couldn't believe it. We don't play the same kind of games, but we both share a love of the same system. Who knew? :)