Have just received a message from a guy called Grimes of all things!!! who is living in a refugee camp in Ghana with his 8 year old daughter. He included his postal address in his message, and I actually feel sad for him having to live in such a place with a small child (but not in a ‘I’ll pay for you to migrate here’ kind of way :)) And I got a message back from the German lady, saying she was happy to hear from me and will write to me!! No news yet from the Nepalese guy though. I will consider this goal complete when I get a reply to a letter I have written, therefore having established a writing relationship. But I have yet to decide how many penpals I actually want, and I really am hoping for a European of the age bracket I specified…
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How I did it: I feel really bad but i haven't replied to my pen pals because i simply don't have the time to write back.Works so hectic. Im a bad person :( If i move to france this year i will get more pen pals but at the moment its not an option. Read how I did it…
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Yay! I’ve just received two messages from penpal international that weren’t from sport loving Nigerian toyboys! One is from a gentleman in Nepal, the other is from a lady in Germany (who is also a nurse like me – double score!!!) OK, both are a couple of years younger than I asked, but I wrote back saying I’d like to write to them anyway. I just hope that they still want to correspond when they see that I specifically requested contact by snail mail not email.
Trickier than I thought – you see I don’t have the nerve to actually contact someone and say “hey you wanna be penpals?” so I’m sitting back waiting for someone to contact me. Only problem is, the people contacting me obviously haven’t read my profile and just contact anyone and everyone. How do I know this? I am being contacted by 25 year old sport fanatics from Nigeria, when I requested 37yr+ from Germany and stated no interest in sport :)
I’m quite looking forward to this! I used to have a couple of penfriends from Italy and one in Korea when I was in high school, and I’m keen to write letters on paper again instead of on the internet. Sooo much more fun getting letters in the mailbox instead of inbox :)
letterstoalostsoul i have nothing left to give ::needs to talk::
Hmm i love the idea of having a pen pal. Im 23 and live in Australia. I love sending and reciving snailmail and the only kind of mail i ever get these days is bills :S
I love music and spend most of my spare time playing music or listening to music. lemme know if your keen :)
i want to write letters to somebody, hopefully get to know them.
want to know me before we start sending letters? ask me anything.
hey i have some quistions for u. u will have lost for me. here i go. r u a girll our a boy? do u like to run if u do i like it to. and if ur woundering ilike to run to. and im fast too. were do u live i live in cannada ontrio. how old r u? so do u like sporst i relly like sportsr u atletec i am i like to to go to the trak and fild this year im a boy
I am from Singapore which is located in Asia. I am 21 this year.
I hope that my pen pal will write to me at least once per month.
If you want to be my pen pal email me at hibye20205@hotmail.com
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It was nice :)
So if we continue to write to each other i consider this goal completed.
visionarymaestro dude
Having a pen pal has been something I wanted since I was a little girl. Now I am 19 and I am hopefully going off to college in the fall. I would love a penpal to exchange writing, photos and drawing and tell each other about our life experiences.
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“How do you actually go about getting a pen pal? I don't want to end up with some random psycho or something lol!”
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