Texting

Yesterday, I did something that most people already take for granted. I sent and received a text message on our cell phone. A friend at work helped me with this, because I had no idea how to begin, or even what a text message would look like when it came in. After trying and being unsuccessful, a quick call to Sprint revealed that we had texting blocked. So, they unblocked it and my friend sent me a text and I responded!! Really, it's the little things.
When we were in Buenos Aires, everytime we rode the subway, we would see people all around us with their cells, texting to other people. While they spent the time traveling in those dark tunnels communicating with people in other places, I thought it was quite amusing, because suddenly you'd see them chuckle or look really focused and then start right away on their answer to whoever. It seemed as good a way as any to pass the time in the "subte".
What got this "texting" thing going here was that Fernando wrote us that Eva might send us a text message from Africa. See, she also had trouble with her plane tickets to Japan. Hers actually got canceled by her credit card company because the charge made in Africa seemed "suspicious". The card company tried to contact her parents to verify the charge but could not, so they rejected and canceled her purchase of the ticket to Japan. This meant she had to go into Kumasi at her next earliest convenience to attempt to buy those tickets again. Since it might have been too late for her to get to an internet cafe to write Fernando to let him know how it went, and it would be a week before she'd be able to contact him again, they were thinking she would just text us the info from the field site using the phone.
BUT, things work out. Having to repurchase the tickets allowed Eva to get the same new return date as Fernando, so at least now they will both be leaving Tokyo on the same day. Eva will be returning to Ghana, and Fernando will be coming through here on his way back to Calgary.
Oh, and Guillermo and I got our flu shots today, finally.


Quote:
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. ~Henry David Thoreau