I miss you. I wish I was better at communicating with you and keeping in touch with you. Although we're miles apart, I am so thankful for Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram so that we are able to remain in contact with each other, but even with social media, it is hard to talk to you. I should be better about messaging you and knowing what is going on in your life. The time zone change makes it difficult because when I am free and when you are free are polar opposites, which makes our conversation challenging to continue.

I love seeing the photos you post and catching up now and again but I will try to make our messaging more frequent. I wish we could see each other more often. When I do see you it is so exciting. Our cultures are very different but you and I have so much in common and it is almost as if we have known each other longer than the little time we have been able to spend with each other in person. I’m really impressed with how little we are able to communicate when we are apart but when we are together it is as if we were only separated a day.

I am so lucky to have met you and to have been able to visit you and see your home. I am so happy that you have been able to come and see my world as well. Years have passed and a lot of people who have had friends overseas have lost communication because of the challenges that I have spoken of so I am so happy that you and I have overcome those obstacles. This week you are here to visit me and I know we will have so much fun. I will get to show you all the fun things that my friends and I do regularly as well as things we don’t normally get to do just because you are here.

There are so many things that I have been meaning to tell you and stories of your own that I can’t wait to listen to. So, I guess this letter is more of a thank you note than a letter. I want to thank you for continuing to be my friend even though distance and hours separate us and I know if I ever need you that you will be there.

I hope you know that I will always be there for you as well. I wish we could have more time to hang out with each other but just because we live on different sides of the world does not take away the fact that you are one of my best friends and that will never change.