I am surprised that no one had posted anything about how nerve wracking the first phone call is. WOW. My nerves are still jumping and my thoughts are still going a million mph
lol...yeah, now that you mention it, my first call to Xin was pretty nerve wracking too. Especially right before I dialed her number. She'd warned me her english was 'too poor'. And I had about a 6 word mandarin vocabulary. I'm sitting there with the phone in my hand staring at it, thinking...what the hell am I doing??? And then I dialed the number wrong, and that made me even MORE nervous! It took me a few minutes to figure out what I did wrong.
And then when I finally got her on the phone, she said 'hello' in english...sigh. It was a little awkward, that first phone convo, but we worked our way through it. Afterwards I had to go outside, because my smile was too big to fit indoors! The next time was only slightly better, nerves wise, but by the third one it started flowing between us. I help her with her english, and she teaches me more mandarin (of course, the things she wants to hear me say! lol) and we laugh and giggle a lot (I will probably get my man card suspended for admitting that, lol.) and I am always in such a good mood afterwards for the rest of the day.
I'm an early riser anyway, so I'm up about an hour or so before I call her at 6 my time.