Maybe I'm overreacting...
Today is Thanksgiving!...or it was. It's already 2:05 AM, the day after here in London. I usually love Thanksgiving because my whole family comes over to my house and we just spend time together. It's packed (four families!), but it's fun. This year, however, I'm spending Thanksgiving in London, so I was kind of missing them. Simple solution though! I'll video chat with them and it'll be like I was there, even for a tiny minute.
So, right after my flatmate finishes having a lovely, heart to heart chat with her family, I start a video chat to see and talk to mine...and really, nothing happened. I got a half-hearted wave from some of my cousins and not even a full conversation with my mom. Maybe it's my fault for building it up in my head, but it kinda made me feel like crap. It's like no one even cared that I wanted to see them or talk to some of them. I mean, is it that hard to feign interest or at least ask how I'm doing? My sister said that it was because "they couldn't hear me," but my suggestion to try again was basically ignored, so that kind of said a lot to me.
Like I said, I may be overreacting, but this just made me even more sad over the fact that my time in London is almost over. Despite not wanting to leave, I still had a sense of excitement about seeing my family again, and not just keeping in touch with them over Facebook and Twitter. That's kind of dead for the time being. Now, I wish I could stay here for an even longer time.
At least I have my dog to go back home to though.
So, right after my flatmate finishes having a lovely, heart to heart chat with her family, I start a video chat to see and talk to mine...and really, nothing happened. I got a half-hearted wave from some of my cousins and not even a full conversation with my mom. Maybe it's my fault for building it up in my head, but it kinda made me feel like crap. It's like no one even cared that I wanted to see them or talk to some of them. I mean, is it that hard to feign interest or at least ask how I'm doing? My sister said that it was because "they couldn't hear me," but my suggestion to try again was basically ignored, so that kind of said a lot to me.
Like I said, I may be overreacting, but this just made me even more sad over the fact that my time in London is almost over. Despite not wanting to leave, I still had a sense of excitement about seeing my family again, and not just keeping in touch with them over Facebook and Twitter. That's kind of dead for the time being. Now, I wish I could stay here for an even longer time.
At least I have my dog to go back home to though.