He introduced me to Slowly and told me if you're afraid to say things to your family, you should probably be fine to talk about it to a stranger.

In this platform, you can share and encourage everything in life with each other, no matter of race, gender or age.

Like many other users of Slowly, I'm sure, I have always longed to make deeper connections with people.

It was about assimilating events and the consequent transformations in my life.

Ele está do outro lado do mundo e me sinto mais próxima dele do que da maioria das pessoas.

It was so fascinating to hear about the differences between the culture and structure of our lives.

Just as I made sending letters through Slowly a fundamental part of my routine, I also learned to listen to my penpals.

Porque eu iria querer fazer isso, quando eu posso mandar mensagens instantâneas?

Lentamente, nos deu uma saída para conversar sobre coisas que talvez não quiséssemos violar por telefone.

Tenho orgulho de dizer que meu mandarim definitivamente melhorou, e consegui conversar com adolescentes do Senegal à Suíça e Hong Kong.

No próximo mês, finalmente vamos superar os 320 km que nos separam e nos encontraremos.

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..."