What a small world

One thing that has become apparent to me over the past couple of years is how much the world shrinks as you grow older. I mean, think about it. When you were a kid, like 6 or 7, you probably played inside with G.I. Joes and video games (or Barbie Dolls and stuff, I don’t really know what girls do when they are little, I just have 3 brothers, no sisters). So your home and bedroom were your domain, you don’t really get out much. Then when you get in highschool you get a car and start driving places and the world becomes a little bit smaller. Then you go to college and start to meet people from literally all over the United States, and also some foreign exchange students, and the world gets even smaller. And then you and your friends have opportunities to go abroad, and before you know it, you have contacts and friends living on almost every major continent in the World, except of course, Antarctica, but who knows?

Well, of course one of the things you consider when you have friends abroad is how you will keep in touch. One of the coolest and most effective ways of doing this is skype! Skype is kind of like AIM, except Skype is specifically designed to provide video chat services. You can just call your friend, and chat it up right there, looking each other in the face. So why did it take me so long to register with skype?? I’ve had a lot of my good friends abroad this past semester, and I have hardly communicated with them. I think I may have emailed one or two of them, but thats abaout it! Some friend I am… But that really is just the way I am, I want them to have their own little “abroad experience”, and I’ll have the rest of my life to hang out and be part of their lives when they get back. BUT still, skype is a glorious invention, and very easy to use. And I should have been communicating with then through it every once in a while.

I’ve been able to communicate with my friends Chett and Kristen several times through skype in the last two weeks. Chett is in Chile and Kristen is in Bolivia, and supposedly they are having the time of their lives. Anyway, one person I was unable to speak to even once while they were abroad was my friend Meagan, who was in Granada, Spain for the last couple of months. I mean, I hadn’t heard her voice since like December or something ridiculous, which made all the more glorious when she called me the other night! But here are some pictures of my friends abroad! In order from top to bottom: Kristen, Meagan, and Chett.

Meagan in Granada. This is Chett, in Chile.