Which excerpt from "Meeting Julia" shows why the narrator wants to find a pen pal?

I thought it would be fun to communicate with people all over the country and learn new things about other places.
In June we signed up for Script Frenzy, a program in which writers all over the world write a twenty-thousand-word script in a month.
We write e-mails to each other almost every day and call each other every other weekend.
I agreed, but I secretly thought I could get them to change their minds about the meeting.

The excerpt that shows why the narrator wants to find a pen pal is: "I thought it would be fun to communicate with people all over the country and learn new things about other places."