New techniques or two worlds collide

It isn’t easy for our families that we are going abroad. They are very proud of us and are of the opinion that it was a good decision and we are doing the right thing. We made our parents the present of a webcam to give them and us the possibility to communicate for free and to see each other regularly via the web.

Our fathers use the computer regularly and Sebastian’s mother is used to word-processing as well, but for my mother this item seems to be somewhat a closed book. By all means it is great to see how everyone is willing and enthusiastic to use this new technology.

My parents moved over from Poland to Germany 30 years ago. When they wanted to talk to their families abroad they had to apply for a telephone slot and arrange this call in the village because there was only one telephone for the settlement. And nowadays you switch on the computer and you can communicate with people all over the world quite easily.

For our parents this is strange but for our grandparents it is like two worlds are colliding.

Nevertheless we hope that the new way of information technology will help us to stay in close contact and make the short distance to Oxford even smaller! We’ll keep you posted ;-)