"Postcrossing took them to a marriage"
Postcrossing received this wonderful article written by Markus (aspen), who recently interviewed Geoffrey (misterteapot, from Australia) and Kati (kilona, from Finland).
If you haven't heard the good news yet, Geoffrey and Kati met through Postcrossing, after which they fell in love and got married. They're now living in Finland. Here's the story:
Start postcrossing. You might get married
Postcrossing is responsable of this, laughs Geoffrey meaning his marriage with a Finn, Kati. It would not have happened if they both
hadn't been postcrossers. But what are postcrossers? Postcrossing means
sending postcards to all over the world. If you send a card to Germany,
you might receive one from a Brazilian postcrosser. Why? Because people
want to receive real mail. This kind of hobby brought the Reynolds
together. "How else could we have met? I can't think of any other way!"
says Geoffrey who has moved to Finland. The couple is crazy about
postcards and Geoffrey has to close his eyes everytime there's a post
office or a card shop near. Otherwise he would go shopping.
Thousands of addresses
I have hundreds of addresses of postcrossers tells Kati and shows her black address book. Geoffrey has saved thousands of addresses to his computer. They send cards every here and there just to make other postcrossers happy. You can do postcrossing with smaller contribution also. Geoffrey joined Postcrossing after he had heard of it from his friends. It sounded a fun idea and I was curious. I noticed soon how nice people are! I noticed also how little I know about the world. In the USA some families even teach geography to their children via postcrossing. A genious idea, praises Geoffrey.
Translation done by Soili (soili). For those of you that read Finnish, the original version can be viewed in this scan of the article.
Once again, congratulations Geoffrey and Kati! :)
If you haven't heard the good news yet, Geoffrey and Kati met through Postcrossing, after which they fell in love and got married. They're now living in Finland. Here's the story:
Start postcrossing. You might get married
Postcrossing is responsable of this, laughs Geoffrey meaning his marriage with a Finn, Kati. It would not have happened if they both
hadn't been postcrossers. But what are postcrossers? Postcrossing means
sending postcards to all over the world. If you send a card to Germany,
you might receive one from a Brazilian postcrosser. Why? Because people
want to receive real mail. This kind of hobby brought the Reynolds
together. "How else could we have met? I can't think of any other way!"
says Geoffrey who has moved to Finland. The couple is crazy about
postcards and Geoffrey has to close his eyes everytime there's a post
office or a card shop near. Otherwise he would go shopping.
Thousands of addresses
I have hundreds of addresses of postcrossers tells Kati and shows her black address book. Geoffrey has saved thousands of addresses to his computer. They send cards every here and there just to make other postcrossers happy. You can do postcrossing with smaller contribution also. Geoffrey joined Postcrossing after he had heard of it from his friends. It sounded a fun idea and I was curious. I noticed soon how nice people are! I noticed also how little I know about the world. In the USA some families even teach geography to their children via postcrossing. A genious idea, praises Geoffrey.
Translation done by Soili (soili). For those of you that read Finnish, the original version can be viewed in this scan of the article.
Once again, congratulations Geoffrey and Kati! :)
29 comments so far
misterteapot and kilona!
I met my husband in FIDO - it's another worldwide computer network. Computers help us to find our love and happiness!
Beautiful story:)
Tealona - you guys are awesome ;-)
great article too
how lucky you are as you have been able to follow your dreams and to make them come true.
Keep on being happy and keep on postcrossing!
All the best to you.
I would also like to stress a couple of things Geoffrey says in the article about Postcrossing: It, too, has made me realize how little I knew about the world, and it also has renewed my faith in people's generosity and willingness to give, give, give. My life is all the richer and all the better for it.
I wish the 'Pots a long and happy marriage, and thousands of cards from all the corners of the world!