Penpals for my swiss-unschooling daughter

[Doris Gantenbein]

Hello!

We are an unschooling familiy with three children and live in Switzerland.

I'm looking for penpals for my oldest daughter Sara (10 years old). She would like to have penpals from all over the world to write ‚hand-written‘ letters. She prefers to have friendship with ‚unschooling-girls‘ between 8-10 years.

Sara can write in english, french and german.

Sara’s hobbies are reading, reading and reading! Then writing letters, cooking, dancing, painting, learning languages, playing with other children, skiing and swimming !

 

Thanks a lot and lovely greetings!

Doris

[Alayna Mackay]

Hello Doris,

My daughter Sloane is also 10 and will begin unschooling at the end of this school year. She also loves to read, ski, swim and speaks and writes in English and French. She can't wait to get out of school but is concerned about having friends. She might really like having a penpal who has been unschooling for a while.

I have friended you so that I can send an E-mail with our address. 

Sincerely,

Alayna

[Doris Gantenbein]

Dear Alayna

So I'm looking forward to your e-mail! I just accepted you as a friend!

Sincerely!

Doris

Alayna Mackay said: Hello Doris,

My daughter Sloane is also 10 and will begin unschooling at the end of this school year. She also loves to read, ski, swim and speaks and writes in English and French. She can't wait to get out of school but is concerned about having friends. She might really like having a penpal who has been unschooling for a while.

I have friended you so that I can send an E-mail with our address. 

Sincerely,

Alayna

[Doris Gantenbein]

Dear Melissa

Yes, my daughter is interested!

Thanks, Doris

Melissa Bendtsen said:

Hi Doris,

After I read your post I was so excited!  My 8 (almost 9) year old daughter Isabella (Bella) would love a pen pal who is unschooled too.  We have been unschooling  for about 6 months and she has never met or talked with anyone who not doing "school work".   

Bella's hobbies are reading, art, animals, and more. 

So, if she is interested we live in Washington State (U.S.A)

[Shari Maser]

Hi, Doris.  My daughter Erica has been trying to find a pen pal for a while now.  She would be thrilled to find a friend who enjoys old-fashioned letter-writing as much as she does.  Please let me know if Sara would like to correspond, so we can exchange postal addresses.

Meanwhile, Erica has written this quick introduction to Sara:

 

Hello,

My name is Erica. I'm eleven years old, and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My hobbies include: reading, writing, playing inside and outside with my friends, playing inside and outside with my puppy Lily, dancing, singing, and doing all sorts of arts and crafts. I've been a homeschooler all my life. My birthday is July 19th and I will be 12 this July. I like to be funny, and like it when people are funny back.  

 

Goodbye for now (I hope),

Erica

 

[Doris Gantenbein]

Dear Shari

Thanks for your answer! Sara would like to correspond with your daugther Erica.

I have friended you so that I can send an E-mail with our address. 

 

Sincerely, Doris

Shari Maser said:

Hi, Doris.  My daughter Erica has been trying to find a pen pal for a while now.  She would be thrilled to find a friend who enjoys old-fashioned letter-writing as much as she does.  Please let me know if Sara would like to correspond, so we can exchange postal addresses.

Meanwhile, Erica has written this quick introduction to Sara:

 

Hello,

My name is Erica. I'm eleven years old, and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My hobbies include: reading, writing, playing inside and outside with my friends, playing inside and outside with my puppy Lily, dancing, singing, and doing all sorts of arts and crafts. I've been a homeschooler all my life. My birthday is July 19th and I will be 12 this July. I like to be funny, and like it when people are funny back.  

 

Goodbye for now (I hope),

Erica

 

[Shari Maser]

Hi, Sandra. Would Alexis like to correspond with Erica too? It might be fun to get a little pen pal group going....


Shari

[Doris Gantenbein]

Dear Sandra

 

Thanks for your answer!

I just asked Sara and she said, that at the moment she has enough of penpals from America.

 

A lot of greetings from Switzerland!

Doris

 

[Sharon Wallace]

Hello, Doris!

 

In which part of Switzerland are you located?  My two granddaughters live in Divonne, France,  and are home-schooled.  They are 9 and almost 12 years old.

 

Saludos,

 

Sharon

 

 

Doris Gantenbein said:

Dear Sandra

 

Thanks for your answer!

I just asked Sara and she said, that at the moment she has enough of penpals from America.

 

A lot of greetings from Switzerland!

Doris

 

[Candice Sisemore]

My daughter Ivy is ten and very interested! I will send you a friend request so I can send you a snail mail:)

[laura McDowell]

Well, it's so nice to see so many responses here for pen-paling.  It looks like Sara will be getting lots of letters !!

My Daughter has similar interests: skiing, arts and crafts, swimming, reading, horseback riding, and many more. She is 10 and we are in Pennsylvania.  Her name is Annalee and since it looks as if we might need to start a pen pal club for those without a pal i'll include her as interested. 
I will also friend shari, Sandra and Candice in hope's of getting something off the ground.

thanks~Laura
Sandra Lascher-Zires said:

Hi there,

My daughter Alexis (age 10) says that she would like to correspond with your daughter.  She has been unschooled her whole life (aside from a few 2 wk trials of PS). Her hobbies are singing, dancing, painting, drawing, swimming, decorating, travel, exploring, movie making and horse back riding.

Hope to hear from you soon. 

[Brigitte]

Hello, I am only hours new to this site, I love that we can connect with families all over the world. My daughter Hayley is 9 and loves animals, drawing and writing letters. So far the only "pen-pals" she has  had have been her cousin and some family, who would rather text/call than write a letter back. I think she would be very excited to have an actual pen-pal close to her age to correspond with. We live in Southern California. We just technically finished our first year of homeschooling this week, and are now moving into unschooling and very excited about our adventures ahead of us. I see you have an abundance of responses already so if Sara is interested, email me for address, otherwise someone else who sees this thread and would like to exchange info can respond to me as well. Thanks!

[Doris Gantenbein]

Dear Sharon

 

We live in the east of Switzerland, near St. Gallen, 1 hour from Zürich.

 

Maybe one of your granddoughters is interestet to be penpal to Sara? Sara would be happy to have some penpals from France. I will add you as a friend, so we can exchange addresses if your granddaughter is interested.

We are looking forward to hear from you!

 

Lovely greetings from Switzerland!

Doris

Sharon Wallace said:

Hello, Doris!

 

In which part of Switzerland are you located?  My two granddaughters live in Divonne, France,  and are home-schooled.  They are 9 and almost 12 years old.

 

Saludos,

 

Sharon

 

 

Doris Gantenbein said:

Dear Sandra

 

Thanks for your answer!

I just asked Sara and she said, that at the moment she has enough of penpals from America.

 

A lot of greetings from Switzerland!

Doris