I don’t know about other cultures but in the Philippines, staying in touch to your love ones is a vital part of our daily lives. We can’t pass a day without talking to our love ones even if they are just in other provinces. I think it is an innate nature of the Filipinos to care and worry about our relatives and friends especially when we don’t get to see them a lot. But thank God for the technology that we now have, calling home is cheaper compared to a couple of years back. Nowadays, I get to speak to my mom at least 15 minutes a day for 15 pesos using a local service provider. And you could just imagine how unhappy she gets when a day passes by without me calling her when she is just in Samar and I am just in Cebu. Thinking about her, I could just imagine how those moms whose kids are studying in the US feel… And so as caring as we are we usually want to have a convenient way to contact one another. Good thing, like the local phone companies here in our country, there are companies in the US like Get Me Calling Cards which offers international calling cards where, your kids studying in US can call from the United States to the Philippines using their Philippines calling cards and let moms place a call from the Philippines to the United States to their kids in the US at a very low cost still using Get Me Calling Card’s Philippines Phone Card.  The good thing about this cards is, it’s so convenient that you can reload it and you can purchase the load on the internet.