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...

Ik heb een geweldige persoon ontmoet. Tijdens het lezen van zijn brieven waande ik met in Spanje met hem.

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.

Hij is 60 jaar ouder dan ik, en toch kunnen we nog steeds dingen vinden waar we het over eens zijn en die we kunnen delen.

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