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[tanklor1]

Well, it's just after 5:00 in the morning and what am I doing? I'm doing research on pen-pals. An idea that I haven't given much thought to for the past 15 years.

Anywho, despite my insombia, if anyone has any tips on starting something like this, please pass them along. I was considering dropping an e-mail at my old high school asking to help a former student out. But if that doesn't work out I'll have to come up with an alternative.

Anyone else try to attempt this? I believe that I recently saw a thread reguarding a pen-pal exchange with a French school, but I can't be certain becuase the search function dpesn't seem to like the words "pen" and "pal".

[MissMaggie]

I remember the thread in question. Seems to me it took a long time, and made the korean students look bad.

[T-J]

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=146867&highlight=letter

There you go.

[bluelake]

Many years ago, I tried hooking up students from an American elementary school (5th grade) with those from a Korean school. It was less than successful. The reason I did it was because the teacher at the American school was a friend of mine and he asked me to come into his class and talk about Korean traditional archery, which I did. The kids were very enthusiastic about it; I even brought in a bagful of Korean coins and gave them to everyone (I left the extra coins with the teacher to give others). I showed students how their names looked written in hangeul and I stamped the papers with my dojang. The kids loved it.

I had each student write his/her info on 3x5 cards, along with a photo (their teacher made sure they had them ready). I brought the cards back to Korea with me and my wife distributed them to students who had an aptitude and interest in English. The Korean students dutifully wrote to the Americans, but I think not one ever received a reply. Needless to say, I did not repeat the exercise...

[antoniothegreat]