Do you have a penpal?

I don't have a penpal right now. I am already married. I met my husband in my home country and we had a long distance relationship for nearly 5 years before getting married. So yes, I believe in it since I am a living proof of that. We actually hardly wrote letters to each other. I guess he spent a lot of money calling me and paying for air tickets that he decided it's best we get married. I certainly could not afford paying for those phone bills, let alone see him in another country. I suppose if it is meant to be, then it is meant be no matter how far you are to each other. You will find a way to be together.

I had a penfriend when I was doing my schooling. I really enjoyed communicating with her. It was a great experience and we would be discussing about many things. We used to share about our interests, talk about hobbies, cultural facts and lots more.. now I do not have a contact with her. But I think having a penpal is a greatest way to develop a broadmind among children. It is also a great way to improve the communication skills.

i don't have any penpal and probably will not have any. perhaps young people like to make penpals. to me, i have other efficient ways to communicate with friends, such as telephone. though i don't have penpals, i believe long-distance relationship. sometimes long-distance relationship is better than face-to-face friendship because long-distance may prevent you from finding your friends' shortcomings.

I surely would like to have a long distance penpal whom I have not seen face to face or even seen his/her face in a pic. If anyone is ready I surely will keep up the good work of retaining the friendship. What do you say? Are you yourself ready for such one? I am from my side.

Hi Huanran, I have next to me a letter that I have just written to someone who shall hopefully become a penpal . I really love writing letters and have written to, I think, 4 other people in the past, one of which I am in touch with via e-mails now. The others I drifted away from because life started to get in our way, it is sad really. I met them all online, the people I ended up writing to. I went on holiday for 4 weeks a few years ago and was without the Internet, so to keep in touch with the friends I had really connected with I asked if I could write letters to them instead, they said yes and so it began. We did that until I returned home and to the Internet. It was such a buzz getting letters through the post, and very much helped to kill time while I was away from home. Alas though when in the normal world of the Internet I found it harder to keep writing to them via letters because fo the time it took, and so we reverted back to e-mails. It won't be an option with this new penpal though so I have hope we will continue to use letters and keep that excitement of actually receiving post for a change lol. As for long distance friendships I believe in that. These days the people I connect with are in other countries and I don't believe it would work otherwise. I find it far less stressful to be in contact with people who won't harass me in reality lol All the best, Dranz

I've only had a pen-pal once, with a little girl over at an elementary school. I found it much more interesting than shooting e-mails back and forth. That's not to say that I don't like e-mails, but to read someone's words, in their own hand writing is an interesting experience. And due to the gap in time between the sent letters, you always had a topic to write about back to your pen-pal.

I haven't had a penpal since elementary school. It was a project we had to do in class. It was really fun and I stayed in touch with my penpal for years after that. I'm not sure what happened, but eventually we stopped writing to each other.

i do believe in long distance relationship .... but our communication nah through writing but by means of chatting n net..