In second grade, my teacher introduced a PenPal program through our writing lessons where each student was assigned a pen pal. These pen pals were college students from a university in DC. So every once in a while, we would get a letter from them. For homework, we had to write a response to these letters. I really enjoyed this program a lot. The thought of receiving a letter from someone you don’t know, yet share their life to them was exciting to me. We learned how to write a letter, how to properly fill out the envelope, what kind of stamps to use etc. And this program continued on till around the end of fourth grade, and I didn’t have a chance to send letters since and was devastated. But when I graduated from high school, my really good friend of mine insisted that since we were going to university in different states that we should send letters to each other. Fun. And the letters began. As much as I love to talk to …