Hello Girl, I am 16 years old. I was recently on an exchange in Spain and I really liked it. I was there with my best friend for 1 week and the girls we lived with were also best friends. It was very nice, we had fun. My girlfriend and I liked them very much and we had the feeling that they liked us a lot. It has been about 3-4 weeks since we returned and during all this time we have been writing to each other and sometimes talking to the Spaniards on the Internet. The only thing I don't like is that it takes them a long time to respond to messages. Lately, I always ask, for example, "what are you doing", after a while they answer, but they don't ask me back. I don't want to sound like a muffin (believe me I'm not), but I feel a little sad because I miss them so much and I really want to keep in touch. I do not live in Bulgaria and here where I live life is quite boring compared to Spain. When I'm in Bulgaria in the summer and I don't write so much to my friend here. Maybe she's used to it, so she's not as sad as I am. I really want to keep in touch, but at the same time I want them to write to me first. I want to know if they really like me, but I don't want to ask them because I feel a little cheeky that I always write to them and sometimes I feel annoyed. I know they have a lot to do there, the school is much more complicated and they have a lot of homework. In general, life is more fun. Maybe that's why they don't write to me first. They may not miss us because they have something else to do, but we are quite bored here and we miss them a lot. Will come to live here for 1 week after 1 year on an exchange basis too, but I miss them terribly. I think they are good people. I've never befriended anyone in such a short time and felt like I'd known them my whole life. My question is what to do? Do you think that I am impudent from what I have shared with you? Why do they never write first? Do we have a chance to maintain the friendship we have had for so short a time? Thanks :)