I have heard of pen pals who started their long-distance friendship as children and continued into adulthood. They are probably tucked away in a storage box in my mother’s basement back in Missouri. However, I’m a sentimental and a collector, so I’m sure that I still have those pen pal letters and postcards somewhere. Sadly, I don’t even remember my pen pals’ names. If so, we could have perhaps met up in person when I first moved to France to study at the university when I was 19. We never had an opportunity to meet face-to-face, and I regret that we didn’t stay in touch throughout the years. It was an incredible learning experience-a cultural exchange. We would often send pictures and postcards to each other.
We would often ask questions about each other’s families, schools, friends, culture, food, and life. It was a way for us both to practice the foreign language that we were learning, as well as to develop a friendship with someone located on the other side of the world. I would write to her in French, and she would answer me in English. I can remember writing letters back and forth to my pen pal from France.
Most of my relationships with pen pals started in my language classes. Pen pals are usually strangers whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on their exchange of letters.” Wikipedia “Pen pals are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. But, it’s true, nobody talks about pen pals anymore-at least in the traditional sense of the term. I grew up having pen pals, and perhaps you did too. Sounds like a novel idea, but it’s actually an old idea. “Why can’t David and Ann stay in touch and be pen pals when we return overseas? If they don’t want to handwrite letters, then they can send each other emails and texts.” “Why not? Who said pen pals are a thing of the past?!” I replied. “Is that even possible anymore?” my friend asked. “Pen pals!? I haven’t thought about pen pals in ages,” I exclaimed. “Maybe David and Ann can be pen pals,” my friend in Pennsylvania suggested. One way to travel around the globe is by putting on our cultural awareness glasses and grabbing a pen and paper! Don’t forget to take your kids with you! What can we do to cultivate our cultural learning and open our eyes to the world-right from our living room? Maybe we can’t jump on an airplane right now to travel to other side of the world, but who says we can’t still travel? We just need to be creative!
#Pen palworld free
MY GIFT TO YOU-GET YOUR FREE EBOOK-“THE 5-DAY JOURNEY TO CULTURAL AWARENESS”!
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