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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

In and Out of Connection

Opening up my laptop these past few days, I am continuously confronted with one overriding question: will the internet work again? 

Having gone the better portion of 6 months with clear, fast, reliable wireless internet connection throughout the different countries I have been living in and traveling through, it has been a frustrating feat to rediscover the disconnected life. 

Rising up at the best moment possible - the final two weeks of school - apparently we humans are not the only ones tired of being worked to the max. Clearly the internet here has gone on strike working for only minutes at a time before requiring a period of rest.  Even now as I write this we have lost contact once again and I will have to save and repost during one of those brief glimmers of hopeful functionality. 

It is interesting how quickly we can become so reliant and dependent on technology and the instant connection to the digital world at our fingertips. What did we ever do before the age of cell phones, laptops and wireless internet?  

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