First step is done ? he was interested in you by your photo. Next step is to keep and fire up his attention to you. Via letters you are to reflect your inner life - character, emotions, feelings, culture, and outlook on life. Do not be too frank and do not give free-and-easy judgments about this or that event. Remember, that he was brought up and is living in other country and other culture. Take this into consideration and give the balanced judgments about everything in your letter. However, do not be too closed ? express your mood, tell about joy and sorrow events taking place in your everyday life, aim to mutual understanding.

The art of holding correspondence with a foreigner, certainly, is keeping to some wise rules of epistolary style and personal creativity. Be a good company for him. Try to express in your letters you character, to show your intellectuality and sensitivity.

Do not limit the contents of your letters with routine events around you and everyday life. The most important feature here is to think globally, but act locally. If you understand that you do not know what to describe in your letter to a foreigner, recollect yourself and tell about the most boring case as an intriguing piece of news. Be creative, since the man will not wait for when your life will be full of breathtaking events which you can describe in your letter to him. Humor is a very good helper in your love occupation.

Try to show yourself from all points ? send him photos, pictures, reasonings about literature, music, and art. Answer his letters without a delay. For man it is very important to realize that you constantly remember about him. Of course, do not forget about the motive of your correspondence. Communication using letter is a very interesting business, but you and he are searching for a partner in life, love and dear, so try gradually to get closer your relations. Everything is in your hands!