Skype the Game Changer

I finally spoke to my birth family tonight!

I was Facebook chatting with my sister using a translate app on my phone the last few weeks off and on.  We scheduled a time to speak on the phone last sunday, but after trying a few times and almost certainly speaking to a southerner a few times  I gave up.  Discouraged and left feeling guilty, thinking they were sitting around waiting for my call, my morning was ruined.  We continued our Facebook routine, and all of the sudden my sister asked me if I have Skype.......Of Course! How could I not have asked her that already?  So we connected on Skype, the camera was completely blurry but at lease we got to hear each other!  My nephew was screaming in the background "Tia, Tia", Juliet said that he asks for me all the time and misses me a lot.  She also told me that everyone knows about me, and she cant wait to introduce me to all of her friends.  I spoke to Magnolia too, and she said she misses me and also told me all about Juliet's birthday party.  I wish I could have been there, it was on October 30th and was a costume party (my kind of party!) it was also a complete surprise for Juliet.  Sounds and looked like quite the fiesta!  They are going to get a new camera or get the camera they have fixed and hopefully I will get to see their beautiful faces soon!  With Skype it will not feel like ages since I have seen them, when I finally get to see them again.  I am left tonight feeling really good about the conversation.

Coming back home has been a mixed bag of emotions.  On one hand, I longed for my family and familiar surroundings.  On the other hand, I wanted to continue getting to know my birth family.  It is sometimes hard for me to believe that this experience actually happened to me.  It feels like a dream, which makes me smile because it is in actuality my reality.  I can't wait to go back to Colombia, hopefully with my parents and visit my birth family again soon.