I was able to participate in two out of the three Pen Pal meetings which allowed Notre Dame students to interact with girls our age from Singapore. I was in a breakout room with two girls from Singapore who were seniors and 3 girls from Notre Dame who were in my class (sophomores). We were able to talk about our lives and how they are similar and different and discuss what life is like at our age in the country we are from. We talked about our schools and what academics are like, what we like to do in our personal lives, and the type of dictatorship in our country and how it differs. One example that we discussed of how our lives differ is that when they are finished with college in Singapore, they move back in with their parents until they are 35, unlike the USA's tradition of moving out of our parent's house when we are 18 to go to college. I was unable to participate in the second meeting due to spinal fusion surgery that I received only 2 days before, but although I missed that opportunity I was still able to get to know the girls and participate in this program. My group was able to revive the two girl's social media so we could still stay in touch with each other after the third meeting. This was an incredible cross-cultural experience that had a major impact on my perspective on how we all had similar experiences with school and personal lives although we come from 2 very different parts of the world.