Month: April 2014

This morning Ivi  cranked up a Google Hangout session (similar to Skype, in case you were wondering) from the CIEE office at the U. of Ghana.  She was using her new Chromebook, delivered by emergency “courier” (thanks to the wonderful generosity and helpfulness of the Africa-visiting Hughes family from New York!), to replace her purloined MacBook.  She reports that the new device boots super-fast and even though cloud-centric, should meet all of her needs, particularly with the offline versions of the requisite Google apps.  Alas, I was saddled with a non-mic, non-audio and non-camera’d desktop machine in my office so my participation was mostly limited to silent one-way video, but I did get in a little texting now and then between work spurts.   Can’t tell you how great it was to see her smiling face even if I didn’t catch her voice.  But I’m sure Kim will tell me all about it over lunch.