Mexican Pen-pal?

Question

Im moving to Mexico in a few months and thought it might be fun to have a Mexican pen-pal. Every internet site I can find looks like a dating site. Does anyone know of a good pen-pal type program.

Answer 1

this may not be the answer to your question but sailorny had a great answer. dont believe everything you hear about mexico and all the danger. try getting on a latino site.

Answer 2

Hi,

It might help if you look for activities, like if you are an artist, you like any special kind of food, video game or music.  Also look in yahoo chats by age and topic.

Answer 3

Don't listen to Roadogg, he probably thinks Mexico is seriously portrayed as that abomination of an excuse of a "good" movie called Traffic.

Let's face the juice, I've lived in Mexico City (uhh.. #1 city in the world in kidnappings anyone?) for over 13 years and I've not even been mugged and I usually travel alone in semi dangerous neighborhoods at night walking in the street. I've already been to Iztapalapa at night and I was never attacked or mugged (guess driving in an ugly car didn't hurt for once haha).

Mexico isn't any more dangerous than living in a city like Chicago. If you now which are the bad areas and use common sense, you'll probably never get mugged either. Oh, watch out for pickpockets though. I know tons of people who got careless and someone stole their cellphone in the subway. It has never ever happened to me though and I use it almost everyday.

Oh, and I'm white and I am tiny and very thin looking. Not exactly the kind of person a mugger would expect to leave a fight, just in case.

Rural Mexico is different though. Respect the pueblo and they will respect and protect you. If they really like you, you could get a very nice surprise when you have to leave.

Hrm.. as for mexican penpals, well I'm technically Mexican haha though I'm right now into finding penpals that can speak Japanese. How about if you ask in this website but in spanish Mexico instead? You'll have to learn spanish eventually when you come to Mexico and even then knowing spanish is no guarantee because there's still a lot of indian mexicans that can't speak it.

Oh, and most mexicans have very bad spelling, like I even know doctors that have silly spelling bloopers. Don't waste your time using something like altavista for translations.

I know several spanish forums, but most of them are of anime. However, univision.com has a forum where many users use spanglish that you could find useful to search for a penpal. Expect poor spelling though.

Answer 4

With all sincerity I would strongly advise you to reconsider relocating to Mexico at least for the foreseeable future. Things have become very dangerous for Americans in Mexico with frequent kidnappings, theft and even murders. As for a pen pal situation, nothing good will come of it. beware!