Here’s one of those You Tube videos that is so very well done and educational. Having lived in Beijing for 15 years during times of humongous changes….Mark Griffith uses this 5 minutes to sum it up ever so eloquently.
Listen carefully to the words….he’s telling an ever so true story.
If someone had told me 18 years ago I’d be holding a small video camera and communicating ‘live’ with my daughter…I probably would have said, ‘Shut up!’ Then if that person told me I’d be talking ‘in real-time’ while my daughter was in Beijing, on her round-the-globe-adventure…I believe I would lean in and ask that person to tell me more.
Enter FaceTime and how Xernay and I have been communicating lately. From California, to Honolulu, to Narita and now Beijing and I have to say [despite the time differences] it works pretty good.
Logistically, where ever Xernay can get Wifi, we have been able to get a FaceTime connection. Strangely, when she calls up, it notes that it is coming via her gmail account. Yet, she’s still having difficulties accessing her gmail email account. One word: firewalls. We are working on this too.
