Today I have one pen pal I met through a website, and the rest of my snail mail correspondence is with friends who moved overseas, friends I met through blogging, social media, and Grad school. It’s always lovely to look at people’s handwriting and admire the effort put into the letters they wrote to you. Sadly, I’m no longer in touch with these penpals however, I revisit these letters from time to time. I still have the letters I received from my penpals from England, Germany, Finland, and Greece. I still have the slips my brother and I received of the penpals we paired up with. I was sad to hear about its closure when I found out. Sadly IYS closed its doors in 2008 due to the lack of demand for penpals. It was founded in the 1950s, and it paired penpals from about 100 countries around the world. In 2002 my friends, brother, and I applied to be paired with potential penpals through the organization IYS (International Youth Service), based in Finland. A book of letters with prompts gifted to me by a friend.
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