Cultured through a screen

My dream is to travel the world. I want to know about other cultures, places, and people. Unfortunately, life cannot just stop and I do not have the money to do that, but someday I hope to see more of the world. Last night, I got to experience a little taste of England.

It was about 1:00 am and I wasn’t ready to sleep just yet and so I decided to go on the website chatroulette.com. It is a site where you can talk to random people through video. It has a bad reputation, as some people use the site for the wrong reasons, but if you are lucky enough, sometimes you meet some pretty cool people.

As I clicked through, I saw these two boys. They seemed to be dressed nice and had smiles on their faces. We began to chat and that chat turned into about 2 hours. They were from London and had just pulled an all nighter, writing a 2,000-page paper for physiology class. They said they had class in 2 hours and so they wanted to just stay up. They showed me their huge books that they had to read and they told me about their hopes and dreams and all about London. One of them was a gymnast and is going to be on Britain’s Got Talent soon, the other one loved football. They both play soccer and want to be soccer coaches. They showed me music that they liked from London, I looked at pictures on Google of their favorite areas, and we had such a great conversation. They were so excited to know about America, while I was so excited to know about England.

At one point, we got disconnected from chatroulette, but luckily had got each others’ facebook names and so we chatted on there and then skyped.

They watched my youtube videos and clapped for me. This was a huge compliment since London has the best musical theater. They laughed at some of my funnier videos and it was so cool to see them watch my stuff.

At about 3am, I decided it was time to go to sleep, but I felt such a zest for life and so cultured talking with them and felt that I had a chance to experience the world all while in my desk chair. It was like we were best friends by the time I got off. So maybe Chatroulette isn’t so bad after all. I feel lucky to have met these two guys and have been so cultured.