I am a high school student and am in my first year of German. I want
to find a high school student in Germany who would like to be a Pen
Pal. It'd kind of work out like I write to them in English and they
write to me in German. I couldn't find any good sites or directories.
Any help?

Hi,

Here are a few sites that might be of help:

ePals
This is a program set up to bring students and teachers from around
the world together.
http://www.epals.com/solutions/index.tpl

Internationale Brieffreundschaften per E-Mail auf deutsch
This is a program for setting up pen pals in German and English.
http://maincc.hufs.ac.kr/~mathias/liste.htm

Germany Penpals
This site is cluttered, but if you scroll through you'll find
potential pen pals.
http://www.indyshopperonline.com/penpals/germany.html

Der Transatlantische Klassenzimmer
This is a site that seems to aimed mainly at teachers, but it has a
mailing list for English-speaking and German-speaking students.
http://www.tak.schule.de/

Penpal.net
This site is temporarily inoperative but promises to be back in a few
days. It claims to have thousands of members in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland.
http://www.penpalnet.com/

International Pen Friends
This is a free service linking people from throughout the world.
http://www.europa-pages.com/penpal_form.html

Finding German-Language Pen Pals
Advice on doing what you're trying to do.
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa031698.htm

Best wishes!

Mvguy-ga






Search strategy:

I wend to http://german.about.com and used the search term "pen pals."
Most of the sites listed above (as well as others I haven't looked at)
were on this list:

Brieffreundschaft - E-Pals - Pen Pals
http://german.about.com/cs/penpals/index.htm