This year, tutors at the Writing Center have pen pals in Rwanda! We wrote letters in November and mailed them out in early December. Due to the long international mailing process, we just received the responses to these letters.
Our supervisor at the Writing Center established a connection with a school in Rwanda and thought it would be a fun activity for the Writing Center tutors to write stories and letters to the kids. We all enthusiastically agreed and we were paired up with students.
I am writing to a 10-year-old girl who loves singing, dancing, and learning English. In my first letter, I wrote her a story using all of her passions. In the response letter, she told me about her favorite animal (giraffe) and color (blue). In addition, she wrote me a summary about a story she read in class.
It was so much fun to receive that letter — she replied to the questions I asked her and asked me questions as well. I answered these in my most recent letter and wrote another story. In this story, I inserted pictures that I took while abroad to illustrate my tale about a girl and her trip around a city.
We are sending our newest letters in today and we will hopefully get one more response by the end of this semester!
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