I am proud to say that my Mandarin has definitely improved, and I have been able to talk with teenagers from Senegal to Switzerland and Hong Kong.

Next month, we’ll finally overcome the 320 km that separate us and meet in person.

Remembering a song by, maybe, the biggest singer from Argentina, José Larralde, he said: "I’ve been through all the world, in the same place..."

And since that, we never contacted each other because he doesn't want to give me a false hope.

Our letters are long, drawn out paragraphs, about everything...

It is wonderful to make friends from a completely different part of the World and to see their country through their eyes.

Встретить друга это всё равно что найти алмаз💎 на городском асфальте, под ногами.

She took a plane and drove 200km by car to see... me? Just... me?

When I listened to her sweet, soft voice speaking lovely Persian words to me from across the world, it melted my heart.

I do really feel like I am in touch again with the world, thanks to all the great conversations I'm having now with such sweet people.

He is 60 years older than me, and yet we can still find things to agree upon and share.

I was skeptical at first. I even considered myself a person no one wanted to know.