Phone Conversation Part 1

This post is being broken in two so more to follow tomorrow!

I had a very busy day planned for the day I was supposed to talk to SinginInTheRain for the first time. While it might seem like this was my entire life, I do have a life outside of my adoption. One of my best friends is currently overseas far far away doing service for a year, and we had arranged for a Skype date that morning. It was going to be nighttime for him and morning for me, and I had to wake up early to talk to him. He kept me laughing that morning and we had a great conversation.  By the way, I love Skype because it keeps me up to date with China

Next, I started working on a midterm that was due that night in my class. It took me a really long time, and I was really frustrated by my lack of progress. I had way too much on my mind to concentrate. I was supposed to have lunch with a friend but she cancelled something I wasn’t all that disappointed about. I had promised my boyfriend I would spend some time with him in the afternoon, so I called him and he came over early with lunch.

Meanwhile I hadn’t done laundry in two weeks and had spent the whole day running up and down the stairs to the basement trying to finish my six loads of laundry without the dryer dying on me before my roommates got home and needed to use the washer and dryer themselves. After I kicked my boyfriend out after lunch, I had just enough time to jump in the shower before the appointed time. I figured SinginInTheRain would call me at the later time because he warned me that he had been working late a lot. Much to my surprise, my phone went off as I was brushing out my wet hair. I recognized his number from the email, though I had yet to program it into my phone.

I took a deep breath and answered the phone, praying I wouldn’t get electrocuted from my wet hair and electronic device. The next five minutes were crazy and bazaar. We must have said hi about five times each, with huge gaps in between because we didn’t know what else to say. SinginInTheRain made a lame joke about email being easier, which wasn’t really a joke. Finally I got desperate and asked him about his commute to work. We started talking about traffic in general and about both of our commutes. He told me about his job and we talked about the city that he works in because I had driven through it the summer before.

Eventually our conversation turned to what we both wanted to talk about. He told me more about his childhood and explained a bit more to me about the situation back when I was born. He told me that he didn’t want me to get hurt but felt it was important for me to know what happened so I would understand why things were so hard for NeverTooLate. He told me about how he had been waiting for me to get in touch with them ever since I turned 18. It blew me away that he had been waiting for five years. We talked for almost forty-five minutes.

He also told me about how he and KungFuPanda were close and watched a lot of TV together. Whenever a long lost sibling would show up in a show, she would always turn to him and say “Dad, I wish I had a long lost sister!” and he said he would always think “Crap!” I laughed at that one. He told me that he was trying to talk NeverTooLate into telling her parents that she was talking to me. Next, he was going to try to talk her into telling the girls about me. He thought it was best to be open and honest, but that Sandlot was really immature for her age and probably wouldn’t understand. I didn’t say a whole lot, just happy to hear his voice and hear about his life. He asked some questions about me, about my parents, and how they were taking all of this. We really had a good conversation. He promised to call again and we hung up both smiling I would imagine.