Pen Friends; now there is something that seems to have faded into the past, in this Tele-communication & Data-communication based world where we Blog, Twitter, Facebook, my space, you tube, Instant messenger, chat and text; all from those little boxes in our pockets. If not those we get online on our lap tops, notebooks, Pcs and palms etc etc. are there still such things as Pen Friends?
Does anyone out there still actually write a letter to anyone other than for business or official reasons? Well I got to thinking about this, in a ponderous moment; well one tinged with a bit of delving into the past. You see its like this: I am trying to learn Spanish (have been for quite some time) I speak a little (not as much as I would like or should) but I do understand more (although unfortunately not in the dialect I need), anyway, I started remembering back to my days at the comprehensive and learning French, each of us was given a name of a French counterpart and told to write a letter. The idea being that as our written French improved we would write in French , and the reverse for our counterparts in France. My counterpart Jacques became a Pen Friend and we wrote regularly; general discussions about likes dislikes etc etc but we wrote and I learnt a lot that way, and still can write and speak a bit (lack of use over many many years does tend to loose the knack). The pen friendship lapsed as time rolled on and the 11 year old became the 15 year old at work and no longer in school and finally by 16 the letters no longer exchanged. A bit sad really on reflection.
Anyway snapping back to the present, what I really need is a Pen Friend a Spanish Pen Friend to stop me blogging inane rubbish and assist in my quest to be truly bi-lingual
And Just because I would like to rekindle the excitement of receiving a letter that is not a bill, circular, postal spam or readers digest offer, or marketing from some obscure company I actually brought a memory stick or something trivial from (oops I was heading for a postal rant there) and sit down and read and learn
So the search begins
