Thursday, September 12, 2013

Postcards from Singapore and Russia


Here is a postcard of an ink and watercolour piece called "Cascade II[iii] from Chaomin who is a 21-year-old from China studying in Singapore.  She's in Environmental Engineering.

The Russian postcard came with a beautiful envelope.  Less blurry pictures to follow.


Look at the stamps!  And the cancellations!

And the drawing on the front!

Here is the postcard from Nina.  I am the first Postcrossing person she sent a postcard to.  So exciting!  She is a teacher in a secondary school and she likes her work, reports that the school year will begin in two days.  Her favorite quote, which she wrote out and translated for me is:  You are rich when you don't need anything, not when you have many things (much money).

It was a very cool mail day.

3 comments:

  1. I think that must be the best part of postcrossing. All of the cool stamps and stickers and other international mail flair. Very nice.

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  2. Somehow, the postcard from the engineer just seems like a very engineer-y picture to me. I was a Russian woman's first the other week, and the card she sent me was absolutely beautiful, an old photograph of people ice skating in St. Petersburg.

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  3. It's very fun to be someone's first. :-)

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