Guest Post: "Pen Pals" by Ruby, 6th Grade

         On one of the last, hot days of summer, my mother said, “Ruby go get the mail.” I got the keys, opened the front door, walked to the mailbox, and unlocked the dusty, metal mailbox. I walked back inside the house, skimming through all the usual bills for mom and dad.         

         All of a sudden I saw the name of my friend, Ashley, on the corner of an envelope. I met Ashley in El Salvador. I was so excited to see a letter for me that I quickly, but carefully, opened the envelope.

         When I opened the envelope, I took out the letter. In the letter she told me how she was doing. On the front of the card there was a picture of a flower. The flower was pink with yellow. It had big petals of pink and small petals around the flower of yellow. The stem of the flower was green. The flower’s color was a pop of color because the paper was white. Inside the card it showed Ashley's writing. Her writing was neat. She wrote with a red and blue pen. You could tell it by the color of the words.

        One day later, I prepared a letter for Ashley. The color of the card was yellow. The front of the card had a flower. Inside the card I wrote in printed writing.  I wrote with a pencil. You could see the eraser marks on the card.

       People might say writing letters by hand is "old school," but I know writing letters to Ashley keeps our friendship closer. In a letter you can give more information than in a phone call. Also you can’t save your conversations with a person on your phone. Only a letter can do that.