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About Walter...

I teach English at Green River Community College near Seattle. Also, I referee youth soccer matches on weekends. My wife is from Austria and we have five children. I attended college in Seattle and Buffalo (NY) before teaching in Afghanistan as a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years. I enjoy hiking, golf, and gardening, but mostly I enjoy doing things with family. I read lots of student writing assignments, so I relax by reading mystery novels and solving jigsaw puzzles. My family enjoys attending games with the Seattle Sounders MLS (soccer/futbol/foosball), our favorite soccer team. http://www.soundersfc.com/

When we lived in New York, I used to travel around the USA doing sales and I sent many postcards back to family and friends here in Washington. They read them and were going to throw them away, so I started saving them when I visited. Now I have settled down here in my original home area and I have about 300 of them.

Since participating in postcrossing, I now keep an eye open for little baskets of cards in thrift shops and postcard books in the sales bins at bookstores. Recently my wife stopped at a thrift store and found a basket with cards priced at ten cents each! She brought home over 100 cards! We sent some to my daughter, who lives in Tennessee and is also doing Postcrossing (LeandraS).

I also join a "Poetry Postcard" activity for a month each summer, sending a poem on a postcard every day for a month. It is finished for this summer, but if you send me a message, I will let you know about it in July when it starts again.

Basically, I enjoy all kinds of cards. Just send something that you think is special. If you wonder what kinds of postcards I like, you can look at my "favorites" collection. Don't worry about spelling or grammar - I'm 'off duty' as an English teacher when I leave school! It's nice if you write a message more than "happy postcrossings!" or "I hope you like this card!"