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Post by ginny on Feb 18, 2021 15:52:54 GMT
Have you stayed in contract? Yes, we kept writing to each other for some more years, but eventually lost contact. I have been googling for her name for some years again and again, but haven't managed to find her. She may have got married and changed her name. It is hard to track down people when that happens
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Post by eefa on Feb 20, 2021 15:28:43 GMT
I feel I can't vote on this. I haven't and I don't know how I'd feel about it so my vote wouldn't be "No Way" or "No but I'd love to" I think my concern is that someone I get on well with on paper may enjoy chatting to me in person less and hence change our written relationship. Probably makes no sense and I don't think I'm clearly expressing how i feel about it but I would be anxious about it I think. eefa , I feel the same way. What if my voice is off-putting? Or my giggle? A very real concern would be that I am too boisterous and outgoing. I don't think I'd ever be considered too boisterous and outgoing
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Post by eefa on Feb 20, 2021 15:34:47 GMT
@kalliope, ginny, Catida, I think that yes if I do ever get the opportunity I like to think that I would alright but I would definitely have a few nerves in the lead up!
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Post by sunshine2170 on Jul 20, 2021 0:24:40 GMT
I love this thread and would love to meet my penpals in person and I think I can at least meet two on this forum some day. One in Australia and one in the US when the borders open. I just saw on the news that Canada would be willing to have a bubble with Australia like we do with NZ and accept vaccinated travellers soon.
I am organising a Postcrossing meetup in October this year, in person if all goes well with covid in Queensland.
Still rooting for a zoom meetup in here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2021 10:27:11 GMT
I have met quite a few of my penpals over the years. The first ones I met were in other states of Australia. My parents took me to Tasmania when I was 11 years old, and I got to meet my penpal in Hobart, who I'd only been writing to for a short time. We sat and giggled at each other while our parents made intelligent conversation. We still write to each other, and I've been over there several times, and she has been here. My penpal in Qld died a couple of years ago. I'd been up there once and she had been down here twice. My Japanese penpal came over here for my 50th birthday and stayed for a week. We had great fun. She could speak and understand English, and I had been learning Japanese before she arrived, but was not proficient with it, and she teased me all the time . I had been to Japan long before we started writing, which is a shame because I'll never go there again at my age, as much as I'd love to. I had penpals in the U.K. for years, but have never been to Europe, so didn't met any except one guy who I've been writing to since we were teenagers. He decided to come to Australia to get away from England's cold winter, and he stayed with us for about a week. Ken got on really well with him too, and we had a great time. We still write. I had many penpals in the USA over the years, but none now, as they all went on to Facebook and I didn't, so that was the end of that. But one of them did come over here with her 10 year old son (long before the Internet existed), and they stayed with us for a couple of weeks. Her son stayed a couple of nights with my brother and his wife and two boys who were around the same age, and they took him to school with them for a week. It was a real eye opener for him. He also made friends with a boy who lived a few doors from us, which we weren't exactly happy about because the boy was a mischief maker, known for breaking into houses and missing school. But as they were only here for such a short time, no harm done. Ken took time off work and we drove my friend and her son all over Melbourne - to see the penguins at Phillip Island, to the zoo and the Healesville sanctuary, and to visit our family and friends. We only keep in touch by email now, but she says she will never forget the great time she had when she was here.
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Post by sunshine2170 on Jul 21, 2021 20:01:54 GMT
Wow @patracat thats a lot of penpals you have met in person, I am still to meet one.
I have met crafters in person whom I met online previously. They invited me up to Seattle to demonstrate at one of their Craft Conventions.
I loved the hospitality and friendliness of the American crafters and have stayed online friends with them.
They regularly invite me back up, and one day when we can freely travel I will take them up on their offer
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Post by emeraldscribbles on Aug 10, 2021 17:15:31 GMT
Yes! Recently, in fact. I live in Arkansas and have a penpal in Louisiana (just one state south, for you non-USAers) that I've written to for several years. She is one of only 3 penpals I'm also friends with on Facebook, and I found out from pictures on there that she was currently in Arkansas. We chatted on there and found out she'd be traveling back home through my area around the time I got off work, so we agreed to meet. I met her, her husband, and her 5 kiddos; we let them play at a local park while we visited. We've written long enough that it didn't feel awkward at all...it was neat to finally meet her in person.
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Post by sastrugi on Dec 6, 2021 6:55:06 GMT
I have met a few! Some stayed at my place, sometimes I traveled to their countries and stayed with them, and sometimes we traveled together to a new place. It's an amazing experience if you get along with the person and a very awkward and painful experience if in real life you don't connect and you are miles away from home.
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