communicating home

It’s amazing where the world has gone in recent years with regards to communication.

In less than 48 hours, we will be on our way to Bolivia on our GSE experience. Rotary has been conducting these trips for decades, but years ago, the teams had little contact with home. A dozen years ago, a friend led a team to South Africa. From what he told me, Apartheid was still in force and racial problems were rife. Things are different now with global communication.

Our district has two teams this year. The other arrived in Tasmania yesterday. Within hours, they had posted their arrival on Facebook and their blog making the news available to anyone with a computer on earth.

I just bought a new laptop computer to take along. I’ll be able to use it to picture-phone home via Skype. All of us can update this blog.

What remains to be seen is how prevalent Internet service will be. We’ll soon know.

Michael