Quoting: PolskaDoll
In school we were encouraged to get a penpal in another country and mines was in Germany :)
Yeah we were encouraged to have a penpal - French or Spanish [whichever you were learning obv]. I wish I'd taken them up on it! I was good in class at Spanish, but have fogotten most everything I learned! If I had made a penfriend perhaps I would have been encouraged to keep up with the learning.
Almost had a penfriend from Ireland once, but I was very lazy. I'd written to her father when I was in primary because we had to write to our favourite authors. I didn't really have one back then - but I'd seen a film 'The Butcher Boy' and wrote to the author of the book it was based on. Patrick McCabe. One of his daughters wrote back instead because her dad was very busy, which was so nice of her. I should have written to her but I wasn't interested in reading books nor writing letters or anything else at the time. Strange since these are now two of my favourite hobbies!
Quoting: Gosia
nobody wants to exchange adresses..
I'd apply caution myself, yeah.