Questions:
How did you communicate?
How did you get your news?
How did you entertain yourself?
What was the most difficult gadget you had to give up and why? What about the least difficult sacrifice.
Were there any surprises for you?

The things I did was basically sleep, talk to family, and actually draw on paper. Nothing surprised me really because I know I would do all those things. When I was younger, I use to use plants and rocks to entertain myself for hours on end. My family wasn't really rich so we couldn't buy video games or computers to play with. It's just how I was. I suppose that's how I came up with a creative mindset. Being without my laptop was a little difficult because of the massive amounts of work I had, but other than that, it was okay.

I communicated to people by talking. It was Thanksgiving so this wasn't really a big change. I don't use the telephone much anyway so it wasn't a big deal. Whatever I communicate with my family, it's only something important and is usually done over email. Even so, it was Thanksgiving break and there wasn't anything I needed to tell them anyway, they were all at the gathering.

My cousin stayed over my house for a while and we played board games. When family was over for Thanksgiving, we played Apples to Apples and ate food. For once in the family meal, I helped with the cooking since I really had nothing to do. I thought it was more productive then to use my time wasters like drawing.

There aren't really any other electronics I use, so my laptop was the only thing I was banned from, but like I said, I know how to entertain myself without my computer. I mean, that was the foundation of how I grew up. I started with drawing on paper because drawing on the computer.