Pen Pals: When you were young...

I use to have penpals when I was younger! Gosh I had forgotten about that! There were actually companies that if you sent in like a couple of $ they would hook you up with a penpal! I met a couple of really great people this way. Unfortunately I don't keep in touch with them anymore. I also remember having penpals for assignments in school - those never lasted quite as long as the friendships I had with these other 2 penpals I had though. Wow..I wonder if kids have penpals anymore? Times have changed so much.

When I was in high school, I did try writing to several people but there are only few who replied back. I am also very lazy writing back because I don't have much things to tell about, so eventually they were gone. Some of my friends married to a foreigner with this help.

When i was alot younger i went on ho;iday with my parents and i made a good friend whilst we were there.We did keep in touch right up to the age of 13 and then all of a sudden we both stopped writing to each other.In one way i wish that we had kept in touch, as it would be very interesting to find out what she was upto now.

I don't remember if I really had penpals back in younger years. What I do remember was I received letters from people asking me to be their penpals but I did not reply to any of those letters. How they got hold of my name? My cousins posted my name in one of the magazines without my knowledge. One of my cousins had a penpal who happened to be my university mate. I did not know until they met and she introduced me to him. They were exchanging letters for quite some time. Right now, this guy still keeps in touch with me but not anymore to my cousin, his penpal.:-)

I don't have pen pal when I was young, but I did try to find a pen pal a couple of months ago, we didn't continue this pen pal relationship any longer though. Because we just maybe too busy, or out of good topic to talk about. That is our lives, isn't it?

It was a thing of the past when things like the internet, emails or mobile phones were just strange tools and I'm glad to have outgrown. It was the thrill of writing to the girl whose school was just a block away and one who stayed quite close but all seemed a lot lovelier in letters.

Yes, long time ago I made some pen friends. At that time there was no internet, so we had to communicate by normal mails. After I started to work, our contact became less and less and today we don't contact to each other at all. I love China

I liked writing letters when I was little, but I didn't have a penpal. Instead, I remember writing letters to my cousin, grandmother, and adult sister. I loved getting mail addressed to me! Later, as a teenager, I had a few online friends from around the world who I corresponded with. Unfortunately, I lost contact with all of them long ago.

Hi LifeGuru, When I was in high school I had two penpals, they were from 2 different cities in my country. We were of the same age and shared common interests like writing (obviously), reading, and listening to the radio (there were no high tech gadgets back then). One of them sent me a picture, and I didn't like what I saw, so I stopped writing him. The other one wanted to see me, but he was seas and mountains away from where I lived, and we both can't afford to personally visit each other (we were both high school students and depended on our parents for allowance). Then eventually we stopped writing each other.

I have a lot of pen pals when I was still young. My cousin who lives very far from me and I used to write letters to each other. However, we stopped writing letters to each other when we both graduated in grade school. When I was still in high school I also used to write a lot of letters for my friends. I even loved to collect stationary as I can remember. However, when mobile phones, chat, email and social network became so popular I got so hooked with it and totally forgot about snail mail. The last time I ever rote a letter was like almost ten years ago. :(

When I was at my Junior school I had a pen pal which was given to me through the school. She was from Yugoslavia and she had the most amazing writing I had ever seen, and she could draw the most beautiful pictures too. I think we wrote to each other for perhaps a year, but then I did not receive another letter, which I was actually quite gutted about. I am 30 now, and I still have some pen pals that I write to, and some new ones too. I always write via snail mail as I prefer it. It is nice because I can send little items along with my letter.

well I have had a lot of penpals since high school. SOme were very nice and we did chat a lot of the times. I got penpals from different countries the world over. Some were very very close to me. And we did talk to each other frequently. Now I still have some very good penpals although we have not met in person we feel like we have known each other all our lives.

i didn't have a pen- pal way back then, we were raised in a barrio,live a simple Happy life ,most of my friends lack the time and effort to send slow mail during our time because of the barrios location its quite remote,so we make letters only on school and hand sent it to friends,pen-pals i don't have but pals,many to mention,now a days pen,-pals should be change to email-pals...by the way i was born 1966..

Yes, I had a few, also through school, and I still keep in touch with 2 of them (I think I had 4 in total). It is a shame people don't have those kinds of arrangements anymore (at least I am assuming kids don't do it anymore?), it was very beneficial for me at the time.

Hi LifeGuru, when I was young I had only one pal pal only. Really amazing eh...! It was during my middle school days. I had such idea to have someone to be my pal pal for my classmate who sat beside me always telling how nice her male pen pal from Japan was. I got the interest then from the sharing photos of her handsome pen pal every now and then Those old days we didn't have computer yet, needless even to say the access of internet connection. Therefore we could make friends with people from different parts of the world via writing letter only. There were mountains of pen pals with pictures and address attached available in most of the magazines here. I simply picked one among them and started to have mutual interactive with him for a few months out of my curiosity. After we had moved to another new house due to my dad's post. Since then I had lost my interest to write to him anymore for I couldn't tolerate I had to wait for quite some time I then could receive letter from the far-off country Happy posting