Posts Tagged ‘Skype’

I saw the movie The Social Network with my friend Sabine this week and it really made me think. Nowadays it is strange to imagine a world without Facebook, Skype, E-Mail or any other Social Media or online tools that I am used to live with. Especially regarding our emigration.

For us it will be easy to stay in contact with friends and family, because we can’t only call them on the phone for a very small amount of money, but can contact them via the internet at every time of day and nearly from everyhwere we go. I want to show my friends a nice place I have found: I just post them a pic on Facebook. I want to tell my parents I am okay: I just send them a text or a mail. I want to check out what my old school friends ar doing nowadays: I just google them.

I remember when I went to Australia in 1999 to spend a month with an exchange family in Adelaide, how hard it was to get my parents on the phone. Back then we already had E-Mail but I think only my dad and one of my friends had an E-Mail-account, which they didn’t check on a regular basis. Now, if I send my dad or my friends an E-Mail I know for sure that it won’t take them more than 12 hours to read it.

Another thing is the job hunt: I for my part can easily search for job ads online, can send my application via E-Mail and then talk to a possible employer at the other end of the world via phone or Skype with no problems. How have people done that back in the 1980s or earlier?

I actually am not sure, if I would have decided to move to the US when there weren’t things like E-Mail or Facebook. I pretty much think that I wouldn’t do it, so I wanna say thank you to Mark Zuckerberg, the people who invented E-Mails and everyone else that makes my life and my emigration a lot easier!

Today is my birthday and it is kind of a sad day for me. This may be the last birthday I celebrate here in Germany and this is scary! I guess days like birthdays or other holidays will be the days when we realize most how much we miss home. It must be so strange to not be able to just drive by your parents, brothers or best friends houses to get yourself a birthday hug! When we had dinner tonight with my parents and my parents-in-law we joked about having a birthday dinner via Skype next year. I laughed about that, but perhaps it will be what my birthday looks like next year!

I am so happy to not be alone with this whole emigration thing! To be frank, if I hadn’t got Flo in my life I wouldn’t be able to go at all, because he is the one who won the Greencard. But anyway I don’t know, if I would be brave enough to go on my own. Short before Flo and I met I really thought about trying to get a job in the US. I was so bored with my life back then and was desperate for a change. The whole being alone in a foreign country thing didn’t scare me much back then. Perhaps because I hadn’t found the love of my life, yet, and didn’t knew what it ment to be without real love. Or just perhaps it was just a dream and not a dream you already reached for!

They always say that friends are the family you choose on your own. Perhaps I will be with a new found family on my birthday next year. Perhaps I will be alone with my husband. Or perhaps I will be having dinner with my parents and my grandparents via Skype. Whatever it will be, I hope I will be happy with what the last year brought to me. And right now I just can’t wait to experience what this will be!