When I was younger maybe about 12 or 13 I had an american pen pal called penfold a very flamboyant young man I wonder what hes up to these days.

yes, I had lots from the Controversy magazine. One guy was in kentucky, his name was James I miss him the other is still in touch with me. we have communicated for 19 years and never met.

Yeah, I had one. It was required to get a penpal when I took Spanish in 11th grade. We had to get one from a Spanish speaking country. We were given a penpal website to check out and I found a boy that was my age that was from Colombia and we ended up exchanging letters all of that year. It was fun

I used to have a handful of penpals over the years... the two that stick in my mind the most are Natalie from England and Claire from Ireland

Yes from 6th grade til 12 grade( and on ) I had 3 from other countries and in 11 grade they all came to stay with us for 2 weeks

here are the 4 of us

Mach said:

aww

Mach, Jess could be almost a copy of you in that photo! SO much alike!

i was a total penpal whore when i was a kid. there was a show called "big blue marble" where you could be penpals with kids in other countries, so i did that and wrote back and forth a while with some kid in new zealand. then i remember signing up for some penpal thing from smash hits magazine and i wrote to some chick in london named hermione, which i thought was like the coolest thing in the world because i was just getting into bowie and i was writing letters to hermione.

hell no, I wasn't giving anyone my addy!

Nah, we just always had exchange students live with us...

When I was younger I did. Still wish I had one...since I seem to be one of the rare folks that enjoy writing letters instead of emailing.

her name was Sara,and she lived in England. I found her through a George Michael penpal newsletter. It was neat cause we would send each other Christmas,and Birthday prsents. We wrote to each other for probably 3-4 years,and then we lost touch. She was trying to move to here (USA) though. Wonder if she made it.
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Severine Nadon from France when I was taking French classes in high school. We were penpals for at least 2 years, then I got hella depressed somewhere in there and stopped responding to her.

Yes A Few A Long Time Ago

grimnt said:

Wow what a compliment - TY

When I grow up I want to be like Jess

Yeah I did. In my 4th or 5th grade class we were assigned to penpals. Mine was a girl in China my same age. We wrote for about a year after I had finished that grade, then we lost touch. We exchanged pictures and everything. It was a good cultural experience.

Yes. About 10 to 13 USA soldiers serving in VietNam.
Their photos & APO addresses appeared every week in "El Diario La Prensa".
Ma use to ask "Nena are you starting your own platoon?"
I still have one letter, from a guy nicknamed "Chipmunk". His siggy was a paw print.
cue: "Magic Carpet Ride"

Mach said:

aww man I wish I could meet you guys and spend even just a little bit of time getting to know you all!

one day...

I had a penpal from the Phillipines in the 6th grade. We really only corresponded like once.

Yeah, on a whim I wrote to 3 people from the Controversy magazine.
Only 1 replied, and we wrote back & forth a few times. I still have a mix tape smewhere that she sent me.
Then I sent her my picture and she stopped.

I probably creeped her out.

oh my God! at one point i had more penpals than i could count! i had to cut back on how many i wrote! i was spending a fortune in stamps. there's only one of the people that i still keep in touch with to this day. in-fact she's a dear friend of mine for the last 17 years!

Oh yes! The first one was in 4th grade. In French class we corresponded with kids from another 4th grade class in Lyon, France. It rocked

I had 14 people I was writing to. They were from:

Ghana
Japan - Elementary school teacher
Germany
South Korea
USA
Philippines
Indonesia

I have one I still keep in touch with today. We consider each other sisters and she named her first born daughter after me and I am the godmother to that daughter as well

Internet ones.

There was some website called kidspace or something and I met a few cool people on there. One in particular, a girl my age from India, we're great friends now.

We haven't talked much since school got serious for both of us but a few years back we spoke on MSN at least once a week.

She's a fantastic friend, I'd love to meet her one day.

grimnt said:

Jess wants to one day travel your way ...

perhaps one day

I had one from India when I was about 11 or so. We didn't last long, though. She didn't write me for a few months and then I got a letter saying she'd broken both of her legs in some kind of accident. Then she wasn't really able to keep up.