A whirlwind romance
Shortly before I was to return to Australia, I went to a Christmas party in the small town where I was studying Japanese.
One of the foreign English teachers brought some of her students to the party, including one really good-looking guy, who was around 30. By the end of the night he was acting a bit silly -- you know how Japanese men show off -- but we somehow managed to exchange numbers.
He called me two days later and, after a long period of chatting arranged to go out.