*sorry, no new penpals for now*

Hi. I'm Ilse, I'm 21 and I live with my mom in Oostende. That's a city at the North Sea in the Flemish part of Belgium, where they speak Dutch. I study theology and religious studies at the university of Leuven.

Things I like: spending time with friends, penpalling, hot chocolate, watching movies (mostly romantic comedies), tv (i love wonderfalls,​ desperate housewives, pushing daisies & prison break), pillows, the mexican restaurant in leuven where you get two cherries in your tequila sunrise, Kurt Halsey, post secret, houses in nice colours, ...


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message to my penpals:

Because it has happened that people didn't receive my letter or I didn't receive theirs, I decided to make something for my penpals so that they can check whether I've received their letter and whether I've already replied to it or not. You can find it here http://ilse​spenpals.blo​gspot.com/​ and I'll update it whenever I send or receive a letter. Don't worry if the letter takes some time to get to me, it could be because I don't get my mail until Friday most of the time (since I'm in Leuven from Monday until Friday). The received part is quite empty now, but from no one I'll update it.

** Note: I love penpals and I love getting to know new people, but I really shouldn't take any more penpals right now. The academy year will start soon and I'd hate to find out that I don't have enough time for my penpals anymore.**

a snail mail penpal (preferably female) to establish a long-term friendship with.
I'm not looking for romance.

It helps if you make the message a bit personal, so that I don't get the idea that you're just copy-pasting​ something. I'd like to know why you want me to be your penpal.

hot chocolate, pillows, movies, snail mail, cocorosie, ben and jerry, chick flicks, stationery, spending time with my friends, ...

cocorosie, ludovico einaudi, detektivbyra​n, katie melua, norah jones, alicia keys, kate nash, the tellers, enya, stars, the national, santogold, windmill, ...

the sisterhood of the traveling pants, love actually, little miss sunshine, match point, tuck everlasting,​ ever after, the italian job, white chicks (this movie can always make me laugh), dirty dancing, dirty dancing havana nights, save the last dance, moulin rouge, piglet's big movie, the tigger movie, monsters inc, the notebook, a walk to remember, the holiday, a cinderella story, 13 going on 30, scoop, the princess diaries, riding in cars with boys, ...

prison break, desperate housewives, wonderfalls,​ ...

the sisterhood of the traveling pants series by Ann Brashares and "p.s. I love you" by Cecelia Ahern (so much better than the movie)
besides that, I like books about traveling through countries too. Like the one by Marc Helsen, called "op weg naar nergens"​, about his trip through countries where life is hard (p.e. Haïti, Congo, Afghanistan)​, or Jan Leyers' "de schaduw van het kruis" and "de weg naar mekka".​

"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" (Gandhi)

“You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes.” (A.A. Milne - winnie the pooh)

"You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.” (A.A. Milne - winnie the pooh)