Hi Empar! I’m Brian, your new penpal! This is going to be great! I live in San Mateo, California. The area is very suburban and the climate is always nice and sunny. This consistently nice weather gets somewhat boring, but it also has its advantages: few other places in the world at this latitude let you wear a T-shirt on February without getting major frostbite!

Although I’m often very busy with homework, clubs, tests, etc., I’m finding my senior year at Aragon to be very fun! I get to do fun things like go to San Fransisco, work at car washes and telephone fundraisers in exchange for free food, and see lots and lots of movies! ;D

I’m into politics, although definitely not as much as my post makes me out to be I enjoy old movies too, although I haven’t seen many from the 40s. I love movies by Hitchcock like The Birds, Vertigo, and North by Northwest.

I really want to travel when I find the time and the money to do it. I haven’t been outside the continental U.S. and I think it would be wonderful to be able to cross the vast oceans and visit exotic and faraway lands. I also like to take pictures, especially pictures of flowers and nature. I have tons; maybe I can find a way to post one of my images on this blog.

Sometime I might try to read Lolita. I usually read about a book a month, although sometimes it’s hard to fit literature into my hectic schedule. I guess choosing a single book is pretty hard; a lot of them are so good it feels unfair to rank one above another.

This is going to be a great experience and I’m looking forward to hearing from you! I’m glad to have you as my friend

Hi Oscar!

My name is Jason, and I am a small Indonesian guy. Technically, I am Chinese by blood, but for all college purposes in the United States, I am Indonesian. My favorite song now is “So Contagious” by the band Acceptance. My favorite movie is “A Walk to Remember” because it’s so awesome and just a totally awesome movie. I like rollarblading, walking around, talking on the phone late at night, and I used to like swimming, but then I decided to drop it because I was too slow for me to make a suitable recovery in my swimming times. I work at a laboratory near my house, where I create and package tests for sexually transmitted diseases, and they are sent around the world, but mostly to the Middle East. I live in San Mateo, and I love it because it is so close to the water and near the big city. My dad is an engineer, and my mom is a hair stylist. My sister has graduated from college already, and is a 2nd grade teacher at a private elementary school.

If there is anything else you would want to know about me, I am more than happy to tell you!

Jason