So a few blogs ago I was thanking Google for the technology and ways in which it can help in those home sick days...todays a bit different. I'm not exactly sure if I love or hate technology. Let me be a bit more specific, I don't know if I love or hate Skype.
Today's Christmas, of course, and typically we (human beings all over the world) find holidays as a time to share with those who mean the most to us, typically including our family. Last night Christine and I had our first ever Chilean Christmas, which was an amazing blessing, lots of delicious food and lasted into the wee of the morning, 3am to be specific. We're still recuperating. One of the biggest differences between a Chilean and American Christmas is that here, everything is celebrated during Christmas eve. We go to an late night service, have a Christmas dinner at about 10:30pm or so and then we open presents at midnight and conversate and hangout until our eyelids are as heavy and overwhelmed as our stomachs were when we finished eating.
So after waking up at the crack of dawn, 11:30 and spending about 2 hours talking with my family on Skype I just wanted to scream. I absolutely loved it and then again hated it.
(1) The internet down here isn't that reliable and so you're praying and hoping that the video will unfreeze and maybe you'll be able to make sense of the jumble audio that's coming through. (2) Not to mention the fact that your trial group chat is sucking wind and people who you dearly love are trying to skype in at the same time and yet you can't talk with 15 people at once. (3) No matter how much time you spend chatting it up and sharing your life there is no way that you can truly share all your thoughts, emotions and recent happens like you can when lounging in your parents living room talking with your parents and brothers and sisters. It's simply imposible to live in two worlds at the same time, no matter how technologically savvy we become.
No don't get me wrong. Yes I'm complaining right now and yet I'm still grateful for the connection that we get through skype and all the other neat things that didn't exist 30 years ago. I just wish that languages, time, and space weren't such "partying killers" and that we, Americans, Chilean, Ethiopians, Russians etc..., could teleport from living room to living room with out losing a second of any of the experiences of truly being with those we love.
Right now we're all somewhere, in the all so sweet physical present... Where ever you are I pray and hope that you truly enjoy and cherish where ever that may be in the all so fleeting present.
¡Merry Christmas & Feliz Navidad!
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