I mean back in the olden days when you wrote a letter and posted it.

We had them through school in grade 4 - I had a Tasmanian kid called Dennis Cahill who rode a little motorbike. I was less than impressed, told him my interests were eating and sleeping and deliberately let things fizzle out after 2 letters.

I also had another one when I was in my teens, a german girl who's grandma was friends with my grandma. But then she came to Australia to visit, and after writing to each other for years, I realised I couldn't stand her - she was really bossy and rude to my flatmate

the org is like having pen-friends all over again!

I loved having pen pals...

You are right.. this is just instant pen pals- we do not have to wait for the letter to be delivered. I still enjoy sending ppl letters and cards through the mail- it is a little more personal I guess.

yeees

I DO have a pen-pal, a friend from back in my school days. Once Year 12 was over, I moved to the city and we've kept in touch via pen and paper. There's something a little more classy about letters in comparison to emails, even if they are way slower.

I have one, Tangeypeaches from this site! We write letters back and forth cos she can't get to a computer very often or for very long. I love writing letters, always have.

yeah had penpals
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I used to write to a girl called Claire in Killarney, Ireland. after a few years it fizzled out though... same with a girl called Danielle from Blackpool here in England

i had two. both turned into relationships.

I used to have five regular pen-pals, one of which was a fellow Prince fan. Two of them fizzled out, but the other three, including the Prince fan, are my friends to this day. Now we live in the same city, so we don't write letters anymore. We call or email.

I kinda miss getting letters, though.

i used to stab people with pens in primary school
but i wouldn't go as far as calling 'm pen-friends.

Nope, but that's how my parents met.

There is this book called Flat Stanley that lots of schools use now to encourage pen pals... even with the internet it's still nice to recieve an honest to God letter sometimes.


http://www.flatstanleyproject.com/

Sweeny79 said:

I had a flat Stanley book through the Ashton Scholastic Bookclub!

ZombieKitten said:

He's awsome ain't he?

Sweeny79 said:

didn't his dad fix him up with a bicycle pump?

I had one in the USA....i can't even remember her name now...wierd if it was someone here ..... Knowing my luck it would be Dan
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ZombieKitten said:

I think so

I had a friend who was incarcerated for a few years.

He said that in the pen,
pals are always 'writing' each other.

Whatever that means.

mdiver said:

lucky he never came to stay with you!

ZombieKitten said:

Thanks for that thought i am going to bed soon.....i will get the night terrors!

mdiver said:

Back in the day Dyslexics didn't make for good Pen-Pals

I had one through school.....some girl in Queensland, on the Gold Coast, who used to ask a hell of a lot of questions.
Things like...."Who's your favourite pen pal?", "What's the weather there like?", "How many pen pal letters have you got?" and "Show us your picture".

althom said:

I think my sister had her too! every letter had when is your birthday and do you like my new stationery!

i had one from puerto rico when i was younger...she ended up moving and my last letter got lost..

strange thing is, she found me on myspace like just this year, so we keep in touch periodically on msn...

I have a pen friend now called Sam, actually.

SammiJ said:

I should search for my 2 on myspace!

ZombieKitten said:

do it!


oh
and i guess chris and i were to a point but he's not into the letter writing
and none of my friends have time for that (nor for me) ... i miss getting a nice letter

ZombieKitten said:

Was the girls name Kylie? She was real nosey.

althom said:

why yes it was!!!