Postcard exchange

hey menininha!

Thanks for your telecard! It's really pretty. But please don't forget to write down my house number! someone else received it and put it back into the mailbox with the message 'unknown'. But it was send again and someone figured out it was for me!

Oh and my avatar is from Sebnem Ferah, it's a Turkish singer! (and my favourite!) Just check some songs on Youtube

Now I googled your town tristangun, or I find it on Wiki. Looks like a niiiice place to be, lovely
suroundings...acctually I did not know your town existed before...I guess it's the same thing about my town, no one know This is fun about cucumis I think, a lot of new knowledge every day.

well, pias..
you should look on wikipedia and there you see, last year.. our town won a price of best town in the world,
our town is (in Flanders you barely got green) the greenest village in Flanders! 3 parcs, 1 big forests and a lot of 'old' forts and stuff, (used to be a military airport in my town) and they also train there.. now they are gone, and there's a lot of green!
if I go like 15 miles east, I come in the second biggest port of Europe, and you don't see a tree as far as you can see!
I can be lucky ^^

Hi again tristangu...YES I read that about your award nice! You know my town as well as yours is an old military town, we haven't been in war for a loooong time you know, but still young people do compulsory military service, I guess it is not compulsory today as it was back in time anyway. But last year the regiment was closed here in Strängnäs and so many vacant job just disapeared from my town I dom't mind they put the regiment down...but I feel sorry for all
thoose people -loosing their jobs or even had to move to other parts of sweden. But the good thing about the remaining buildings are that they can be used now for schools and maybe even apartments, life goes on without the regiment!

Oh, belgian army is poo
if 10 people die (what has happened in 1991)(I was an estonian then) they retreated their whole army in Rwanda.. really, same during WO I and WO II, by then they had 600,000 soldiers! and in Liège they had the best and strongest bunker in the world,, (2 days after the belgian invasion, they already had conquered that bunker)

Hmmm, Belgian army is now more, for helping people (like in Libanon, and after the great Tsunami! ==> (that is the reason why I once thought about going in the army, for helping people)

Aha..so you are origin an Estonian tristangun...I didnt know. That makes me think of the tragedi, many years ago today , I think in the beginning of 1990 (maybe you are to young to remember)
you know the big ship Estonia that just sink in the middle of baltic sea..on their way between Estonia and Sweden....many,many people just disapeared.
About 'the army', I can only agree with you...good to use this big 'thing' for helping people

Oh, I heard something about it before, yes..
only it was in 1994 ^^
I looked it up! Name of ship was the Estonia, 137 people died

Hmm, and again about the army thing,,
I've decided (a long time ago, though) to, not going in the army,, but following my dream! (I was 10 when I said I wanted to study Chinese)
So well, 1 more year and I go to China, and afterwards study Sinologie + Economics

Btw: how old are you?

veeeeeerry old tristangun (he,he)
41. I guess most people are really young here

Good for you to be able doing what you like,
go to china, sounds interesting and I guess different from europe. So...are you able to speak and understamd chineese?

never heared of sinologi...I guess I had to google that.

No, I think most people on this site are a bit older (at least the experts)
well, for me it's a very good training!

Hmm, no I am not able yet to understand & speak Chinese, but I am following Chinese lessons 6 hours a week

Sinology is everything about china - culture, history, language (simplified & traditional), chinese law, economics and stuff

after Sinology (Bachelor) I am doing 4 years of Economics (Master)

I knew you were a little older than me Pia, but I must admit that you sound very young...

Thank you THAT
You are a nice person, but hey...I don't mind being the old 'grandma'.
(joke)

and Thais is right
first I thought you were same age (or no, maybe 20 or something like that)
If I listen to my mum.. (ah well, her English isn't even that good!)

My mom doesn't speak english at all...
In my generation here in Brazil, mom's and daddies aren't very connected to languages...

And who's old Pia??? You're younger than my mom... so you don't have age to be my grandma hehe.
Hugs, see you tomorrow.

Good for you and your sisters (?), you have a 'secret' language then, if you need.

But...about your parents, I guess they are 'about' same age as me..don't they learned English (or another language) back in school?
In Sweden we had to learn English, obligatory.

Yes THAT, who is old?...you are never older than you feel in your heart.(can you say so.. )

Hmm, my father knows english (has live in Canada for few years)
but my mum, no! when she was born, there was communism.. (I don't think that there was English then + she never talks about it!)

Oh I'm like watching my 10th youtube movie from 'free hugs'

it's so touchy!
1 guy had started it, and now there has been such a campaign in so many countries!
Glad there still exists love in this world!

Just a little older than you... And what you said is totaly true.

your 10th free hugs movie? I like this campaign... I wish I had the t-shirt, hehehe.
I'm a free hugger in my spare time.

Haha, so did you make a movie yourself?
Ian said I should do it myself too!

I really loved the campaign (didn't find a movie of, 'free hugs in Antwerp', maybe I should be the one?)

No I didn't make a movie...

Yupii, I've got cards from Roller Coaster, Goncin, pluiepoco (by the way, maybe you want to tell me what is written there, because Chinese I have never learnt....) and I thank you, guys.

By the way, goncy, my town back in Romania is also vey industrialized and polluted, I doubt yours can be worse. But still, it is what I call (still) home.

Hello folks!

Today I've received a nice postcard from New Mexico from Una Smith - Thanks, Una!
I was ready to go to work when I checked my mailbox..

Know what? I have a friend from Texas, she writes me letters often and there was a time she went to New Mexico and sent me a postcard of a cavern with a big rock - I think it is like Rock of Ages if I'm not wrong. Quite interesting!!

I'll scan your postcard, or better my postcard and show it here later