Now, he is not the most, how do I put it, 'loving' of boys. (He'll say he doesn't miss anyone, calls everyone terrible names, you know, the same defensive type thing). Anyway, this trip with his school was his first real time away from home, in terms of furtherest, longest time period, and he was staying with complete strangers with whom he had never met before.
The reason for this back story is that he called home once. True, this could be put down to a number of things, none of which I really want to get into right now, but I think it a tad strange that there was no other way for him to communicate home.
Mum had given him a phone number he could ring so that it would charge the home account and not his host family's. Don't get me wrong, whilst experiencing the same trip I used the same method, but that was seven years ago!
Has technology not changed enough since then to allow my brother easier access to more advanced technology? Or is this technology just not being utilised as readily as it should be? Or furthermore, is this just a result of my brother's cold-heartedness and my mum's reluctance to find a new and better way of communicating with her son?
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