Christa is a member from Flensburg, a German town very near Denmark. Christina is a schoolteacher in Denmark, so she crosses the border everyday on her way to work! :) Here is what she had to say:
- How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?
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I came across Postcrossing when I was on a summertrip around South/East Europe. Together with my travel-friend Silvia I met with my good old penfriend Sibylle in Vienna after our tour. Sibylle was showing us around in Vienna and told me about Postcrossing. So when I came home again I looked at the Postcrossing page and started taking part.
I love receiving mail from all over the world. I have had penfriends since I learnt English in school, but the last years I have less time for long letters, so postcard writing is a great addition… I still can send mail out in the world and receive from close and far away.
- Do you have any other interesting hobbies?
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I love bike trips, most music, theatre/musicals/opera, scrapbooking, meeting friends, skiing, good movies (love pirate movies!), reading (esp. about history and other cultures), collecting stamps and souvenir magnets (besides postcards of course), writing letters, etc…
My biggest interest is traveling, I love the “adventure” of visiting other places in the world and I’m very thankful that I’m able to travel some. When friends ask me if I collect something… I usually answer: postcards, stamps, magnets… and countries :)
- Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!
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I mail my mail from both Denmark and Germany. I live in the very North of Germany and I work in Denmark as a schoolteacher. I have sent a lot of mail from Denmark so far but since April postage is “horribly ” expensive… so I have started mailing from Germany again.
And this is where we have our postshop and I get my stamps:
- Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special.
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Favorite postcard I received… I could show MANY as I have so many favorites. Here are some of the cards I received lately which I like a lot:
As you can see I love landscapes. Some of my favorites are mountains… maybe because I grew up with Alpin skiing (in Austria!) and here where I live we have no mountains :( So every time I receive a mountain card. I remember the great times I had in the mountains.
- What is it your favorite part of the Postcrossing process?
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Receiving cards almost every day and meeting people from all over the world. Sending out cards from my “little world ” here where I live or places I have visited.
- Have you met any other members in real life?
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So far I have meet Robin67 from Austria, Gforp, Gogge1 and Dorthe from Denmark. Looking forward to meet Dorthe and Gogge1 soon again in Ålborg.
18 comments so far
Hi Christa! Great interview! Sooo many nice postcards! Thanks for awesome postcards you sent me. :) Cheers!
Hey, great interview!! ;) Is it possible that there is a postcard I sent you on the photo of your favourite cards? =)
Dear Christina,
Thank you for the wonderful swaps/RAS cards and magnets you sent me during your world wide adventure :)
My best wishes to you, and to your best friend Silvia ;)
Nice to 'meet' you Christa! It must sounds strange to say that you go to a different country every day for work! I have a family of teachers- mum, dad, brother, sister... :-)
Aaaah, liebe Christina, wie schön, Dich hier zu sehen! :-) Ich bin ganz stolz, daß ich Dich zu diesem wunderbaren Hobby gebracht habe und ich schätze Deine Freundschaft wirklich SEHR! :-)
Alles Liebe, Sibylle
(= aaawww, dear Christina, how nice to see you here! :-) I am very proud to have introduced you to this wonderful hobby and I really appreciate your friendship very much! :-) Lots of love, Sibylle)
I see one of my favorite cities are in your favorite cards, 3 row the snowy peaks of Tromsö, North Norway. I have been there 3 months and i loved it :) Greetings to dear Sibylle also :)
So nice to meet you, Christa! If you ever want to exchange postcards with my class, please send me a message! :) I'm a teacher, too!
Nice to 'see' you Christa! Thanks again for the great postcards, stamps and souvenirs you always send!
oh, christa, TOLL dich hier zu sehen als spotlight.. und sogar noch um den *6th b-day of our beloved postcrossing* herum!!!!!!! viel spass weiterhin und danke fuer alles schoene, was ich bisher schon von dir erhalten hab!!!! *smile*
So good to see you again :) Great interview ! Looking forward to seeing you again and soon in Cph.
Yeah, they chose a "Dane" for the interview this time. It was great seing you here in Aalborg and I hope we meet again in Copenhagen in September. Thanks again for all the great cards you have sent me.
Great interview.:)
Greetings Christa - I often wondered why sometimes you sent from Denmark and now I know. It is nice to see you here on the interview spotlight. Greetings too to Sibylle and dollart who both have visited Dublin.
Nice interview - great to see a South African postcard among your favourites!
Hi Christina, great to see you joining the list of "stars" so many thanks for all the wonderful cards we have exchanged and to see a NZ card in your favourites!
I visit my brother in Denmark every year and sometimes sent poscards from there, that's true - it's realy expensive service!:) So it makes sense to sent postcards from Germany.
Thank you for all comments :) best greetings from sunny London ....very nice to know you all !!!
I began postcrossing one month ago and I feel it will be very amusing ;)
lots of interesting people, travelling all over the world and open-minded
good luck and Bravo to Christina, alles Liebe aus Frankreich