Welcome to Pen Pal REVIVAL
I’m linking up AWAKE people from all over the planet. If you can read and write in English and you are 100% for freedom, then you can participate. Adults and (accompanied) children are welcome.
How can getting a pen pal assist the resistance?
1. It will improve morale by helping people to remember they are not alone, especially this winter, when who knows what lies in store for freedom lovers everywhere.
2. It opens up new lines of communication that are almost impossible for the authorities to monitor.
3. It’s an opportunity to teach our children the (almost) lost art of letter writing.
4. It will create many private archives of first-hand eyewitness accounts of what is taking place. Who knows, some of these letters may well be given in evidence at a later date (Nuremberg 2.0).
Anything electronic can be surveiled, altered and “disappeared” down the memory hole. Anything. What is REALLY difficult to get rid of, however, is 1000’s of private collections of hand-written letters! Hence this Pen Pal REVIVAL!
So, regular people writing regular letters to one another will be a not insignificant concern/irritation for the powers that shouldn’t be. It will drive the Silicon Valley tech-geeks and their masters crazy not knowing what we are all up to! It will be especially annoying that we are encouraging children to learn independent forms of communication.
Imagine in 20-or-30 years’ time, with permission, being able to read accounts of this time through the eyes of children? Honest and brave historians will be extremely grateful to us.
If nothing else, having a historical record that cannot easily be tampered with will be a great achievement indeed.
How does it work?
Click on the PEN PAL REVIVAL button below and enter the details that you are comfortable sharing. I fully appreciate the issues around data protection, privacy and child protection. So, you will be asked for the minimum and you can decide what you wish to share with me and with a potential pen pal.
I will match you up with someone appropriate and send you both each other’s shareable name and email address. Here are some of the categories I will use:
Parent of child/ren aged 7-16 years
Not a parent
Happy to pay for international postage
Prefer to pay domestic postage only
The idea is to get a letter in the post by next weekend wherever possible so that we catch the momentum and then peddle like men and women possessed, in order to keep it going! You should aim for 2 letters per month, but that’s between you and your pen pal.
Parents
For those of you with children, this is a GREAT way of enhancing their English education and absolutely counts as an English lesson per week/every other week (useful, if you are already home-schooling).
Parents will, wherever possible, be matched with other parents so that your children may join in and that way you can share one envelop and one postage for two letters: a parent’s and a child’s. Please allow the children to address the envelopes to their child counterpart, as part of the magic is having mail addressed to yourself, especially when you are younger! I know, because I used to be a POSTIE before I became a teacher!
(No adults will be matched with children for obvious reasons).
I will release a short video lesson on “letter writing” this THURSDAY (via email) as part of my Parent-Teacher Training (ENGLISH) series, to help parents encourage their charges to get started and as a memory-jogger for anyone who is struggling with where to begin.
Pen Pal REVIVAL
Click on the PEN PAL REVIVAL button, (or Typeform link) below and let’s get this show on the road! Over 100 people have signed up today - the first day - so, I will get on with the admin right away and you will all hear back from me ASAP.
When you receive your pen pal details, be sure to contact them via email RIGHT AWAY so that you don’t chicken out! It is really important that you hit the ground running… and I’ll have done hours of admin for free, so please do not let me down! Thank you.
As well as your pen pal’s name and email, I will send you some brief instructions along with a few hints and tips on how to get going for those who are shy and for GOODNESS’ SAKE: PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK MAIL BEOFRE YOU COMPLAIN YOU HAVEN’T RECEIVED ANYTHING FROM ME!
I hope you remember that part!
Let us begin:
(Typeform Link in case the above button won’t open in your email: https://fzwgrrlkmk8.typeform.com/to/xMoUJbDQ)
Action conquers fear; be brave, do something.
Sarah Plumley
Thinker-Teacher-Truther
PS. If you haven’t yet signed up to my cursive (handwriting) course then crack on! I’m limited to 20 students for teaching reasons. Proper lessons, proper homework and proper handwriting!
Here’s the link: https://flurly.com/p/WriteWednesday
Here’s my ‘before’ and ‘after’ proof (I used to have terrible handwriting):
The finished product, a letter I wrote recently to my pen pal of 28 years:
Treat yourself to fluent, legible and swift handwriting. Handwriting is for life, not just for Granny’s card this Christmas!
Here’s the link again: https://flurly.com/p/WriteWednesday