Pen Pals

Do you have a pen pal? Do you still communicate by letter?<div><br></div><div>When I was in school I had a pen pal for a few years.  Crystal, from Kentucky, and I regularly wrote letters to each other for a few years.  </div><div><br></div><div>I would imagine Crystal was quite disappointed when she read my letter when she got to hear of the mundanities I was getting up to in Ireland, in comparison to her own life which seemed very exciting to the 15 yr old me.</div><div><br></div><div>She sent me a photo of herself in one of her letters.  Posing at a party with a red party cup in hand with a crowd of boys in the background.  Tanned and relaxed looking, I was impressed by her, what I thought, was sophistication!</div><div><br></div><div> I also was impressed by her disposable red cup.  Partyware in Ireland was a lot more basic and duller in comparison at that time.   Party cups came in one colour (white) and were about a third the size of a red cup!</div><div><br></div><div>So anyway with the advent of texting, email, Skype and what's app, etc I put the question to you do you still write letters to pen pals?</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyv-SjQTd5CJkiODN2uYo_JTZZJa3es0NqWYGe9ATYPvp8HboxbF97NGlYZTqkYIpT2aD83C0QcCr_0M-BHN1NGNbVYehkukfhRy3yMPMhPKZxKKEPGMwNAFQBJXQD98MZ9_cUfCZprTU/s640/blogger-image--1676496209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyv-SjQTd5CJkiODN2uYo_JTZZJa3es0NqWYGe9ATYPvp8HboxbF97NGlYZTqkYIpT2aD83C0QcCr_0M-BHN1NGNbVYehkukfhRy3yMPMhPKZxKKEPGMwNAFQBJXQD98MZ9_cUfCZprTU/s640/blogger-image--1676496209.jpg"></a></div><br></div>

Pen Pals

Do you have a pen pal? Do you still communicate by letter? When I was in school I had a pen pal for a few years.  Crystal, from Kentucky, an...

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