Maintaining good friendship

How can we maintain our friendship with a person of different nationality?

Social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, skype, facetime, whatsapp, line, can help with maintaining friendship with friends of different nationality. We can post our daily routine on facebook to show them how our life is. We can also send photos directly to them through social means. If we wanted to see each other so much, we can communicate through facetime and skype. We can also leave them a message through whatsapp, line and such applications.

To show them your sincerity, instead of sending them things online, we can also do it offline by sending them letters, pictures and postcards. However conserving the usage of paper can be important to the Earth, sending emails instead of letters might be the eco-friendly alternative. Exchanging gifts is also a good way to maintain a friendship with them. If possible, surprise them with a visit to their house with a gift. If times don’t permit, we can send them “gifts” such as stickers on messengers like facebook, line, wechat etc.

Although studying is important, giving yourself time for enjoyment is also a part of our life. Playing online games once in a while with them, even with some of your other friends, might take your friendship to another level.

Most importantly we should communicate using a common language instead of your mother tongue. However, in order to add some sparks to your communication, we may exchange some basic language uses for your mother tongue to encourage each other to learn a new language. This may be of great help in the future when you may want to visit them or even help you in your future. Having a second common language may bring joy to both parties while correcting each other’s mistakes and learning together.