****SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT****
Grandpa's Corner is NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS! We announced this back at the beginning of May, and told you all it would be effective June 1. Thanks to the sloth of the groundskeepers, the effective date didn't take place until June 18. As such, we have decided to include those applications submitted between June 1 and June 18, and accordingly they have been added to the Corner. Unfortunately, the "grace period" is now over.

Of course, the Corner will still be open for people SEEKING penpals, and we invite you to browse through our many entries (at least ONE of 'em oughta have what you're looking for ^_^). We thank everyone who has submitted applications to us over the years, and we'll let you know if we start accepting applications again.

Now, back to the show...

Hello everyone! Welcome to Grandpa's Penpal Corner, where you can meet people from all over the globe to talk with and just have a great time! My grand-daughter Rei has been extremely excited about this idea from the start and so has Yuuichiro. I wasn't too sure about it at first, but now that I've seen how many girls are visiting Hikawa Jinja, well, I just couldn't be happier, hehehe...uh, don't tell Rei you heard me say that, OK? *Ahem* Anyway, let's meet some people:

Oh, and by the way, if any of you young ladies want to be my Special Assistant here at the Shrine, just e-mail me and...

Grandpa!!

Hehehe...nevermind...

Special thanks to Jessica Mason for the idea of Grandpa's Penpal Corner.