My Key-pal :
Her name is Alexanderia Lampe, 17 years old.
I met her through Interpal penpal net (http://interpals.net/index.php).
This site is quite user friendly.
In this site, you can search a key-pal with quick search and advanced search. You can limit your search by age, country and language.
In a search result, you can see their names, profiles, short self introductions and pictures (if provided) at a glance (profiles and pictures are linked).
Also you can add some of them in your bookmark (you need to log-in first).
Alex lives in 'Idar-Oberstein' which is a small town in Reinhessen, Germany.
She's very friendly and sweet. She is good at English because she has learned English for almost ten years.
I found out that in Germany, children learn English as a second language since elementary school and almost every German speaks English very well.
We have some common interests such as music and arts.
But also we had chances to talk about the theme of my homepage.
She told me some interesting things about her hometown, Reinhessen which is located between two rivers, the Mosel and the Rhein.
On the dividing ridge of the waters, there is a street named by Edelseinstrasse that is a famous place of Jewels.
There are more than one hundred manufatures of processing gemstones in the village of Kirschweiler, and her father works there, cuts gemstones mainly diamond.
Also she told me about the 'Museum of Jewels' in Idar-Obstein (near her home).
It has numerous rare and precious jewels including a big natural violet quartz (amethyst) which is taller than an adult man.
She told me about the Amethyst because I'm especially interested about it.
While having feedback with her, she pointed out one thing about my homepage..
(Part of the message from Alex on 6/3)
Korean fencing? Is it a kind of a Korean tactic of sword fighting?
It's scary. ^_^;
Yes, I visited your site. Wow! It's really pretty !
I would like to build up my own homepage too.
Well, one thing about your homepage - on my 15 inches monitor, I have to scroll my browser window from left to right, back and forth.
The width of the text in each birthstone page was a little wide for some of them which I didn't gave thought to.
So, I modified the width of the text properly.
We're both excited to share our lives in different cultures, and maybe someday I'll have a chance to visit Europe.
I send her a greeting card from Yahoo, Greetings.
For me, I like this site because the provided cards are divided into some special themes such as special occasions.
It's easy to choose according to your purpose.