skype 1 - mobile 0

Without any problems at all i just managed my first video call with my parents using skype and it was great! Normally when I'm away ill keep in touch with a text or a quick call in the evenings but I'm now realising that it is so impersonal and unnatural. To see their faces and watch them laugh and smile was really cool and seemed more like how a conversation should be. Although my mobile phone does have the ability to make a video call i have never used it and thinking about it i don't know who in my list of contacts would be able to receive one anyway! For any students living away from home at university right now, try calling your parents with skype, its free and you might just make their day!