Challenge Week #3: Some of My Favorite Apps

What if there were no apps, or even no electronics? I’m no genius, but I’m pretty sure our world will crumble as we know it. Well, at least all teenagers…. Ever since electronics have been invented, they’ve been the most needed item on planet earth. Now, there are some of my favorite apps in the App Store.

Sports Center… all of the scores, all of the updates and all of the reactions around the globe. Also, you never want to be stuck in on a car ride while your favorite team is fighting for a spot in the playoffs, do you? Well this app won’t let you miss it. Once you tap on the game of your choice, you can either watch highlights or watch the game live! Whether you like sports or not, this is the app to get.

Beats Music… Every song that has ever existed, right here, free! In this new Beats Music app you can search up your favorite song or album and add to your playlists: Workout, Relax or whatever! If you don’t feel like making all of these different playlists, then just add the songs to your unlimited library. This app is mixture of pandora and spotify, where on Spotify, you can search pretty much every song and on Pandora, where you can play radios of different genres of music. Everyone, all ages should test out this app.

Waze… Of course I won’t really need this until I’m 16, but still, I love it. Waze is a GPS app, but cooler. Waze tells where all of the traffic, all of the cops and all of the wrecks are located around Austin and Waze directs you around that. Usually, when I’m headed out to baseball tournaments in the middle of no where, my dad demands me to open up Waze and tell where I’m going. Now people, don’t use that GPS built into your phone, get Waze.

Instagram… This app allows you to catch up on whatever your friends are doing right there, right then. Right now I have about 620 followers and am following about 540. Most of the People I’m following are people I know, but the others are funny accounts and celebrities. So, in Instagram you can take pictures or take videos on whatever topic. Instagram probably isn’t as active as twitter, but it’s more of a kid friendly app, so all kids and adults should get this app.

Papa’s Freezeria… No doubt about it. Papa’s Freezeria is the best game ever. In this game, you can create a character, boy or girl, that works at a milkshake shop. As your work days increase, you earn ranks, rank names and new customers. Also, after every day there are these mini games, there you can earn new clothing and new items for your shop. During the day, there’s a order station, build station, mix station and topping station. After you give a satisfying milkshake to someone 5 times, you give them a star customer badge. If you’re ever bored during a road trip or plane ride, get this game. Trust me, you’ll be entertained.

These apps are the best of their genre. From sports and music to navigating and social networking, these are the apps to get!

Challenge Week #2: TopGolf

Playing golf with friends or having a warm, moist, juicy burger with fries and a shake is fun and delicious, but playing golf with friends AND eating that juicy burger? Now that’s awesome! Playing golf at a country club is something, but playing at TopGolf is in a whole other world.

TopGolf makes hitting golf balls on the driving range more fun and competitive by putting out targets throughout the whole range to create kind of a bowling feel. For my 13th birthday, I went here to TopGolf with about 15 friends. We split up into 3 groups and started the fun. Just as 13 year olds usually are, we were just nonstop crazies. By the end of the party, I decided that this was the best party ever.

In addition to the main part, golfing, there’s the amazing food. The menu is endless. From burgers to wings to fish, no one can stop you once you get going. The setup of tables for the food is useful also. There’s about a 8 person table surrounded by TVs, one with the scores of the TopGolf game and the others filled with sports around the nation. The food there is some of the best ever.

Now that I think back, I’m almost positive that I’ll have some of my future birthdays at TopGolf.

My Phone

My phone… I mean, what would I do without it? I guess there is a benefit from not having it, but I wouldn’t be able to live without it. From texting to gaming to music, my phone holds fun for an eternity.

For example, without my phone, I would most likely have ended up in the back of a white van with “an endless amount of candy.” I wouldn’t have been able to contact my parents or 911 when I see something strange like kidnappers. Even fires or a natural disaster could get deadly fast. Say my mom forgot to tell me that there was chicken in the oven and a timer goes off– I have no idea what that is for, for all I know it could be time for me to do my homework. Trust me, you never want to leave a little innocent kid–especially me– without a cell phone.

Also, from a teens point of view, without my phone, I wouldn’t be able to play games or– you know– take selfies. Usually, when I get home, I don’t immediately start my homework. I take about 30 minutes right when I get off the bus to play on the xbox or on my phone. I couldn’t survive if, when I got home I had to go straight to doing homework all the way up until dinner. That would be absolutely miserable. No teen could survive without games.

Yes, I know phones help me stay on task, but what is the fun in life if all I have to do is stay on task. Phones are the definition of Ben.