I met up with my mom on Saturday to go car shopping (that's another story in itself). She had a small bundle of mail for me, which is normal as I still get mail sent out to our home in the country. Mostly credit card applications and other junk, one letter stood out -- it was from Algeria. I've been into penpalling since I was 13, so letters from other countries isn't completely foreign to me. However, I don't really know anyone in Algeria. I recently became penpals with a lady from there, but she didn't know what my country address is. This was strange.
The letter was sent by someone named Khaled. The name seemed somewhat familiar, but I still wasn't sure who this person was. I opened it, and was shocked.
Inside was a letter from Khaled, and a letter...from me. It was an introduction letter I had sent to Khaled 7 years ago. We had met on Interpals and decided to attempt snail mail. Attempt is the key word.
My introduction letter was short but silly. I was a 21 year old girl, just graduated from my TV Broadcasting course, living with my (now ex) college sweetheart and 3 guinea pigs. I was working at a call centre in between finding TV production jobs. "I hate my job," I wrote. "Everyone is quite rude over the phone so I end up hanging up on them." HA! That's a chapter in my life I practically forgot.
Khaled's letter itself was fascinating.
"Well, it's long time I didn't get your lovely letters, because I sent you many of them but I got no answer. I never forget our friendship..."
This whole time he had been trying to reach me and I had no idea. The memories started to come back though. I sent out my introduction letter in early 2006, but never received a reply. I figured he must have lost interest in writing, and I forgot about our pen-friendship. I couldn't find him on Interpals again either, so contact was lost. In reality his letters never made it to Canada. They got lost somewhere in transit.
Since the weekend I've managed to find Khaled on Facebook and we've been trying to catch up as much as possible.
Friendship is a pretty amazing thing.
~ E & R
19 comments:
I've had a few penpals in my day as well, I love them! I find that a letter always gets lost in transit. Then i'm stuck thinking that the penpal never responded and my penpal is left thinking that I never responded!
This is so cool! I'm glad you two managed to reconnect. It makes me happy when facebook does what it's supposed to do, you know??
And I PROMISE I am getting your little something in the mail ASAP. I have the dumbest small town post office. Who can mail anything when it's only open while you're at work?! Ugh.
--Erin
that is so awesome to hear. I have a pen pal now + I think it's wonderful that you guys are still able to keep friendship. so happy.
Wow! Such a cool story! So glad you finally got a letter!
Speaking of pen pals. I'm mailing something out to you this week! ;)
That is so awesome. Facebook saves the day!
This is the coolest thing in the world. I love crazy surprises like this. Coincidences and rekindled friendships are what life's about.
That is so sweet! And how lovely that he kept trying to get in touch.
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Wow, cool story! I am glad you guys managed to get reconnected!
That is so awesome!
I'm still working on your package, can't wait to send it out! :)
What an awesome moment to have when you opened that up! It seems a bit sad that physical letters seem so foreign and special. It's always emails and Facebook now. I should really get a penpal. :)
Trish
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That's awesome! I've lost touch with a few pen pals over the years, and now I wonder if maybe some letters just got lost along the way...
It's so cool that you were able to reconnect with someone after all that time!
that's amazing, i always wanted a penpal but i didn't have luck on it :)
BTW I saw the pics of the baby fishes on instagram and they are so cute!
I didn't know penpal still happening nowadays, but it's cool.
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This is such a lovely story, so sweet! It's wonderful you managed to find him on FB too, it's fantastic how small the world is now! xo
This is just the cutest awww
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What a cool story! That's awesome he made another attempt to connect and it reached you- I probably would've given up after the first try :) Yay for pen pals!
Crazy!
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