Small Things Count

Remember as a child exchanging letters with a pen pal in another state?  How fascinating to learn what kids in far-away Texas did for fun, or how Joey got to play in the snow for several months in. . . where was that now?  You were able to experience someone else’s life.  Thanks to The Web (or snail-mail, if you prefer), you can do the same thing today on a larger scale.  Find out what life is like in Albania or Argentina, Croatia or Costa Rica, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, or Viet Nam.  In return, tell about your own life.  Find names by asking people at work or church who have relatives in other parts of the world.  Check www.mylanguageexchange.com (international pen pals practicing a foreign language) and https://ppi.searchy.net (Penpal International).  Or do your own online search.  If you do, though, avoid singles sites and ones that show pictures of women who hope to become foreign brides.  After awhile you’ll develop a friendship, discovering mutual interests that prove that ours is, indeed, a tiny, interconnected world.