What are penpals? Penpals are friends who you communicate with (traditionally) via letter, hence the pen part of the phrase. Of course over recent years, with the increasing popularity of the internet, more and more people are becomming epals and forsaking a pen, paper and postage costs for the instant communication and free aspect offered by emails. How do I find penpals? There are several ways people find penpals: 1) Some schools operate penpals schemes where they will liase with other schools to match pupils up, who will then exchange letters. 2) 'Real life friends' - some people write letters to friends of theirs whom they know from ...  Read the complete review

After just reading a review by supersonic75 - my penpal, I have decided to write what I think about this subject. I first started writing with penpals about 15 years ago. I was 13 year old and I was going on a a school exchange to Germany. So we got paired up with our host family and were encouraged to write before we went to learn about where we were staying and find out about another person of the same age in another country. I ended up having about 15 German penpals at this point you can imagine I couldn't keep up (and at that time probably didn't have all this money for stamps), so it all fizzled out. Over a few years I had a couple, none very memorable ...  Read the complete review

Pen pals. Is it a hobby of the past? In the day and age of emails and texting do people still write actual letters to strangers? Well I for one do! I first started my obsession with penpals when I was about 13 and was an avid Smash Hits reader (showing my age now!). My favourite part of the magazine was the penpals section which had lots of peoples adverts and addresses and you wrote to whoever took your fancy. I had two penpals in England, one in Scotland and one in Germany I recall. It was fun getting my own post and I would excitedly read it over and over, deciding what to put in my reply to them (probably not much thinking that I was only 13!). As I ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger I had alot of pen pals. This was in the days before internet and texting on your phone. I found that I became semi- addicted to it to be honest. At one stage I had approx 35 pen pals. I was always writing letters. I would wait each morning with anticipation for the postman. I bet he was fed up with me, making him deliver all my piles of mail. I was making loads of friends, and I enjoyed writing the letters. It did cost my poor mum a fortune in stamps though, and writing paper. But at aged 15 you don't think about that. I met up with a few of my pen pals, and we became great friends. But they didn't stand the test of time. As I grew up and went off into  Read the complete review

I got my first Penpals when I was 13 years old I was reading through a magazine and there was a page with people wanting to find Penpals. So I looked through there likes and dislikes and chose one to write to. I have always loved writing and enjoy hearing about other people's lives in different places and love sharing my interests. A few days later I got a reply and we regularly started writing to each other. After a few weeks I got a FB in the post with her letter which stands for Friendship Book. What you do is write your name and address and what you like doing on it then send it on to someone else then when the book is full you send it back to the person who started .  Read the complete review