Send a message in a bottle

At my college, there’s a tiny pond-ish thing called “the slough.” Maybe I’ll toss a message in a bottle in there, for easy retrieval.

I live in Kansas, which is potentially problematic, but this is something I would really love to do. When I was young, I never knew how penpals were made. For some reason, I assumed that people just threw bottles into the ocean containing all their hopes and dreams and hoped that someone would find it. Silly, I know, but it made perfect sense in a five-year-old-romantic sort of way…
I’ve got plans to visit The Netherlands this summer… perhaps then.