Week 8

Hello again =)

This week's act of kindness is sort of a kindness to myself as well as to someone else and I've come to realize it's an ongoing process.  I started # 52 this week, which is to find a penpal.

I was a little hesitant to start this one because I know it's a creepy world and if I give someone my email address, they could possibly find my home address, hack my life and steal my identity, ooor worse...  So, needless to say, I didn't really jump all in with this one.  I've been searching the internet and I found a website called PenPalParty.com, which I recognized from my seventh grade French class when we were all forced to have penpals.  Luckily, that website was a huge starting point for me and I spent hours sifting and searching through the different files for different people in all different countries.

After all of the reading and weeding through, I found a handful of people that seemed interesting to me and also took the time to post my own file in case I missed an opportunity somewhere in the mix.  I've sent out a few e-mails to the people I had chosen and am still waiting for a reply, but hopefully someone will pull through soon so I can tell you about it.

It's kind of funny how nervous I am about this experience, now that I'm thinking about it...  I've never really put myself in the position of contacting someone I didn't know at all in hopes that they would reply and we could make conversations about random things, still without ever meeting each other.  I don't remember it being this way back in middle school, but I'm still (cautiously) optimistic about the whole idea of this!

Have any of you ever had a penpal?  Was it because of school or just because you wanted one for yourself?