Cute Postcards

TW-477624 is my second postcard that I’ve received (from Taiwan). Six types of dogs look so cute. This postcard was sent on February 23, 2012 by a mother of three children named Lin Linghui. Writen on postcard “wake me up when your postcard comes”. Absolutely I resgistered the postcard soon and I said “WOW!”, after I found it on the floor when I was arriving at home from my school. I think the postman slipped the postcard under the door because no one at home at that time. There are 3 stamps attached on this postcard and I do love it!

The Real Messi
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The twelfth postcard that I’ve received via postcrossing. UA-242926 is a quadrilateral postcard from Lviv, Ukraine. You must have heard about Ukraine. Yap! The host of EURO 2012, besides Poland. Sent by Natasha on March 24, 2012. I think she really understood what postcard that I want to get. That’s a oil painting postcard. Lionel Messi wears old F.C. Barcelona’s kit. Beside Messi is a player of F.C. Metalist. Look at Messi’s face.. he looks chubby and fatter than The Real Messi LOL. But that’s a very good painting and looks so cute ^^

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Doesn’t it look so cute? A postcard of Dutch girl from the south of Holland. But nowadays the dutch girls do not wear that clothes anymore (maybe now is modern era :D). Do you know flowers frame on that postcard is a motif that often use in various forms of woman clothes in Indonesia now.

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The last is a postcard from Russian cartoon film. A girl who as small as a thumb. I watched her story on TV when I was a kid. RU-1003055 sent on May 26, 2012 from Maxim. Interesting thing of these postcards is the stamp of the WWF. It’s so special for me because I never got a WWF stamp. So, that's my first WWF stamp.

Postcard from New Zealand

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Port Chalmers is the main port of Dunedin, New Zealand. This is the only one postcard from New Zealand that I’ve received. It was traveling for 15 days. The sender say that is a small town near her, a busy international container port.

 I like that postcard because it shows many buildings, railway, roads, and also the natures of New Zealand. I also found a barn with red paint, that I only could see on “Dora the explorer” when I was a kid.

Look at the barn behind the monkey.

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common barns in Indonesia
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Wooooowwwww... I was amazed because barn that I watched on “Dora the explorer” is really exist in abroad. Indonesia people don’t build a barn like that, they build barns usually from bamboo and wood to store the harvest.So I never see a barn look like in New Zealand or on “Dora the explorer”.  I told to my friends that the barn is really exist, also showed the postcard and they said “Is this a real barn ?” hahaha... LOL.

When I’m looking at this postcard I feel I want to go around this town by bike, visit some interesting building (the barn of course), and enjoy the beauty of Dunedin. What an amazing scenery!

Thank you Sally J

My First Postcard

Yeah.. this is it! This is my first postcard that I received. It came from Italy, sent by a woman named Simona. She said she bought the postcard in France. Wow it's amazing! Because I'm the one of those who love French.
Written on a postcard in French "the guests of Zulaykha (Potiphar's wife), dazzled by the beauty of Joseph, cut their..." (I don't know the next meaning) and there are Arabic writings below the picture of postcard.
I got my postcard on 7 of March 2012, I was doing an exam at that time, after I finished my exam I checked my cell phone and my mom sent me a short message, she said that the postman has delivered my postcard from Italy and she put it on my bed.
woooooww... I was very happy, finally I got my first postcard since I joined postcrossing 181 days (about 6 months) ago. After I got my first postcard, I felt I want to send more and more postcards and exploring the world by postcards that I've received.
Thank you Simona, thank you postcrossing, and do not forget thank you postman :D

Postcrossing

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Have you heard about postcrossing project?
It seems not many people know about it.
Postcrossing is a project that allow a postcrosser to send a postcard to other postcrosser in the world randomly and he/she will get at least one postcard back  from another postcrosser from somewhere in the world. For me postcrossing is a way to explore all over the world by postcards and find out the beauties in every country, because every country has its own beauty and uniqueness.
First of all, you need to have an account on www.postcrossing.com then you need to input your identities and your address clearly. You also can upload an avatar for your account.
Then request an address by clicking "Send a postcard". Read the direction then check on check box and request an address. And your postcard will go to somewhere in the world. If you find difficulties to read and write the address, you can print the address.
Do not forget to write the postcard ID on postcard that you going to send, but please write your postcard ID rather far from the place of writing the address. Postcard ID is a serial number of postcard from your own country, it’s important because the receiver will register your postcard by the postcard ID and it make the sending status “Traveling” to “Registered”.  For the begginer postcrosser, you can send at least 5 postcards to different people.
Then mail the postcards to the nearest post office from your house. If you only sent a postcard, at least you will get a postcard back. But remember, someone who  sent  a postcard to you isn’t someone who you send a postcard.
You need to wait to receive a postcard and after you get a postcard, register postcard that you received using postcard ID written on a postcard. Then you’ll know who sent you a beautiful postcard.
I knew this project from my English teacher, she taught me about postcrossing, and showed me the postcards that she have received and I interested to join postcrossing. It also help me to learn English more and cultures of countries in the world, even cultures of my own country. I always write a lot on my postcard and try to explain about the picture of postcard that I’m going to send as clear as I can or maybe I explain about my country, my hometown, and my life.


Happy postcrossing! :D