When I was young, I had a penpal in Russia. She was my age, also the daughter of a teacher, and loved painting. Due to growing up, and the apparent economic politics of the US postal service, we lost touch after a number of years of corresponding. Later, we found we other on Facebook. She is now a journalist living in the same town and I am a teacher myself, living a state away from where we began.
When I found her again, my love of getting and sending mail was sparked up. It has been a long time since I've gotten or sent mail just because, and so I began on a journey to find a "penpal" as an adult. And so, I ran across a few websites that host something called postcard shares or postcard crossings. In these lists, you are given a random address. You write a postcard and send it to that address. You are not guaranteed one back, because the point is sending and receiving mail and creating a wide community of snail mail lovers. Then I stumbled upon bullet journaling and the concept of a the traveling journal. In this, a small group gets together and shares a journal. They mail it back and forth, over and over until the notebook is filled with letters, artwork, photos, etc. While I could easily find a postcard group to work with, finding a journal group was near impossible, as many are already involved in a group. After sending my first two postcards (both to the United States). I received two requests from Turkey and in one of those requests was the ask, "please send me a sentence or two in your language." It got me thinking. What if I started a group of snail mail loving Latin teachers. It would be a unique opportunity to do a number of things:
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Our BeginningsThis came to me as a passion project while I was writing postcards in English across the world. One of the receivers had asked for a sentence in my language of choice and, of course, I sent one in Latin. It got me thinking, why couldn't we do this in Latin too? Check us out and join us! Archives
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