Czech Republic How To Contact Me During The Semester… If You Must
This might be a little late to the party, but perhaps you miss me and desperately want to stay in contact. What ever should you do? I present the unnecessarily exhaustive guide to ruining my semester abroad by sucking me back into your life in the States:
Use social networks. Obviously I like my social networks. It’s my major and such. You can expect to find me journaling through Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., (Sorry, Google+!) so you can let me know that you too have visited that restaurant or riden that camel. While I can’t stay absorbed in Twitter and other instantaneous platforms like I can at home, I’ll do my best to notice anything directly addressed to me.
If you have an iPhone… Send me an iMessage! Just because I’m abroad doesn’t mean you have to use a new gizmo to contact me. Make sure you’ve added my email address(es) to your “Ben Zweig” contact entry and compose an iMessage. If you try using my Czech phone number, you might get charged when iOS can’t deliver a message to me and attempts to send an international SMS instead.
If you don’t have an iPhone… Text me through my Google Voice number. My phone will receive those texts over data so you won’t get charged for international texting and neither will I. If you don’t have the number, ask me. It begins with 860-271…
Video chat. Y’all know Skype. I’m on it. Ask me for the silly username. Or start a Facebook video chat or a Gmail video chat or a Google+ hangout or a FaceTime or a ChatRoulette or whatever else you use.
Call me if you must. If you really need to call me directly, first try my Google Voice number. I can answer calls if I’m sitting at my computer. Otherwise it will send to voicemail and I’ll return your call at some point. If you work in Wall Street and have access to unlimited international calling, bug me for my Czech number. Incoming calls are free.
That said, I am abroad. This is my time to be away from all that makes me comfortable. Incessant contact won’t help me make the most out of my time here. And who knows? It might even make me homesick. (The horror!)
And then there’s always quill writing. Always an option.