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.

เขาอายุมากกว่าฉัน 60 ปี แต่เรายังคงหาสิ่งที่สามารถเห็นพ้องต้องกันและแบ่งปันได้

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