For someone who isn't a fan of video calling, being forced to do it (because we don't have a choice) could take a lot of getting used to. DetoursFromHome
[Editor’s note: Detours from home is a Rappler column where readers can share about the new things they have learned while in quarantine. An incoming junior college student shares how she inevitably come to love video calls that she used to hate. You, too, can share your ownCollege friends find this fact funny. They got to know me as someone whose extraversion was borderline exhausting; it made no sense to them that I hated having to talk via Skype or Zoom.
No amount of tagged memes or skribbl.io private rooms could fill the void of human interaction. Hesitantly – and finally – I reached out to a small friend group and floated the idea of video chatting one Friday night. All three of them answered on the first ring.Living in a small house with many people gives me very little privacy; having no room of my own is also a setback in itself, sending me scurrying for any quiet space whenever I have to be on a call.
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