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My Finnish pen friend (if you can call it really that way) is called Niina
Valve. She is one year younger than me, but she sounds quite grown up. She actually likes to do the things every normal thing of her age adores:
hanging around with friends, going to parties, listening to some music, playing with the dog, …, dislikes studying. I must say that I didn’t
expect such letters like the ones she wrote; you would believe that people who do
not know each other would only write about the most superficial things, but that seemed not to be concretely right. When you do not know someone very
good, when you aren’t forced to have physical contact, it’s not that difficult to tell about your daily life problems, about those very
personal
things, because you know that the other person is playing for listener. He will accept every word you say, he will try to explain his own view, he’ll
just be there when you need someone to get rid of your problems. Of course, you can always turn to your best friend, but I do not believe it’s that
easy to get in touch with that best mate when you’re suddenly feeling blue, or
when something very nice happens to you. It actually is like the cabdrivers;
you get in the car, you tell him where to go, you start talking, he
listens, you pay him and you feel relieved. The same for the Finnish pen friend. I
wrote her some times, and actually it’s not that descent to say, but in one
way or another, I used her to get myself feel better. But I think you can expect something like that. When you are forced to get in touch with
someone you can’t even pick out of your own, I believe it’s not that natural and
real. But of course, it’s the same with the whole chat culture. I cannot say I got to know her, nor that she got to know me that much
better than those first letters. She is one of those people who are my so-called
buddies, people who you can get in touch with on the net through a special program where you have to give in the e-mail adress of the person.
Well, it happens quite regularly that we are on the net at the same time, but we
just don’t get further than a quite simple hello. The whole happening was very interesting, not only to get in touch in
another language and with people you don’t know, but also to learn a little
bit more about yourself. I must say that the whole idea is well found and helps you in daily life. Something I didn’t really believe before it found
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