Young adults (18-20) abroad

[Anonymous]

How did it go for yours when they first went abroad? Were they fine? Did you worry?

[Anonymous]

I wandered around for four months alone in Europe before email and the interwebs. There's more ways to stay in contact now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wandered around for four months alone in Europe before email and the interwebs. There's more ways to stay in contact now.

We had phones back then.

[Anonymous]

DC just got back from a semester abroad. Had a great time and did a ton of traveling. I asked for proof of life only when they were traveling away from their study city. I worry because I'm a worrier, but I try hard not to let that get in the way of reality.

[Anonymous]

I studied abroad in London at 20 years old in the 90s, no phone other than the one phone for our 200 person dorm and a computer lab 15 minutes away for email access. It was amazing and totally fine. I went by myself and met up with a study abroad group not knowing anyone. Much easier today for kids, especially if they've done any international travel before (I hadn't...I'd barely left New England).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did it go for yours when they first went abroad? Were they fine? Did you worry?

What weird, vague questions. Location, plans, and the individual matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did it go for yours when they first went abroad? Were they fine? Did you worry?

What weird, vague questions. Location, plans, and the individual matters.

No since I want to hear people’s experiences.

[Anonymous]

DS spent 8 weeks in Eastern Europe at age 20, we talked about once a week with occasional texts in between--basically same as when he's at college in the States. I worried the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wandered around for four months alone in Europe before email and the interwebs. There's more ways to stay in contact now.

We had phones back then.

Telephones. It cost a fortune to call home from a pay phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC just got back from a semester abroad. Had a great time and did a ton of traveling. I asked for proof of life only when they were traveling away from their study city. I worry because I'm a worrier, but I try hard not to let that get in the way of reality.

L O L when I studied abroad for a semester my family had no way of knowing when I left my “study city.“

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wandered around for four months alone in Europe before email and the interwebs. There's more ways to stay in contact now.

We had phones back then.

Telephones. It cost a fortune to call home from a pay phone.

Yea that poster is just being an ass. Pre-Internet nobody called home from study abroad. It cost too damn much. You used air mail.

[Anonymous]

My children spent half their lives growing up in Europe. We did boarding school/finishing school as as well. They were always fine on their travels with friends.

[Anonymous]

She was fine. Better than, even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My children spent half their lives growing up in Europe. We did boarding school/finishing school as as well. They were always fine on their travels with friends.

Why didn’t you like having your kids around?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wandered around for four months alone in Europe before email and the interwebs. There's more ways to stay in contact now.

We had phones back then.

Telephones. It cost a fortune to call home from a pay phone.

Yea that poster is just being an ass. Pre-Internet nobody called home from study abroad. It cost too damn much. You used air mail.

+1
I had my parents' phone card number memorized but only called about once a month over the course of a year. Other than that it was air mail, in those thin air mail envelopes and paper. SMDH that people don't remember or care to look up how expensive these kinds of things were back then.