Pen pals in school

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I just remembered in school when I was 8 ish years old we had pen pals from some random country. I wonder if that was real (not sure why it wouldnt be but I dont know lol) and what happened to those...
I mean it was just a thing my teacher had come up with that we were all going to be assigned one and one day we just stopped doing that in school. So what happened? I wonder if I still have some of those letters somewhere... It feels very random to be given a pen pal like that but even more random for them just to disappear one day.
I dont even think I understood it back then. From what I can recall I thought it felt strange to write letters to a complete stranger that I hadnt even picked out myself.

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  • kelili
    1 year ago

    I live in what you would call a remote country and I remember that during some years I had two pen pals. One in France and another one in Germany. We wrote for years until one day we stopped. Then, I wrote to my German friends some years ago and she was attending University.

    I think that it was a way to encourage us to write. My mother tongue is neither english nor french and yet I had to write in those languages to my two pen pals. I was even invited to France and my parents had already agreed to it but I do not remember why it did not happen.

    So yes, these were reals.

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  • Bassmachine
    1 year ago

    Did you get any details about the person? Pictures? When was this?

    I'm just curious about pen pals and messages in a bottle type stories. 😊

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