skype pal

Yay for skype! And Mixxer. I've been doing language exchanges with Japanese people that I've found through the site. Tonight was the first time I've gotten to talk to a girl, however, which I was really excited about. Japanese has feminine and masculine ways of saying things, and I'm afraid of picking up male speech patterns and making jaws drop when I talk (in a bad way.)

The girl I talked to tonight was super adorable in all the stereotypical ways of a Japanese girl-- our conversation started off with her being very nervous and giggly. When she was finally able to talk, she told me that my online profile was so cute and that she's been waiting for days for me to come online so she could talk to me. If it were a guy saying that I might be weirded out-- but hearing it from her made it cute. Another way in which talking to girls makes me more at ease. And after reading NANA I'm quite set on finding a female friend in Japan =) which I might otherwise have a problem with, working in an engineering research lab...