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We are studying World Literature, Cultures and Geography next school year and I was wondering if the 4real members in foreign countries would mind mailing us a postcard from their country. We did this when we did US Geography two years ago and it was so much fun.
We would love to mail postcards back to you wherever you are - though we have no big travel plans for the next year, so Washington DC/Virginia would be the only ones we would probably send.
We have family in a lot of places we knew we were going to be doing this study a while ago - so we have already started receiving postcards from Africa, Europe, Asia - the children are setting up a "postcard wall"
Another thing we are doing in conjunction with the postcards - each child has a "passport" and a book of flag stickers that they get to "stamp" their passport with whenever we "visit" a country. Together with the postcards it is a substite for actually visiting all these wonderful places - which we can't do right now 
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I like this idea, Marilyn. I live in WI and so wouldn't help with the different country aspect, but it would be fun to do between states as well especially if we sent postcards that had pictures with something special from our area. A blog page was doing something similar to this, but I was leery of giving my address out to just anyone. My kids love to get ANY mail and I think they'd like this.
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Count us in!! We are from "The Great White North" (a.k.a Canada) but we love our American neighbours  I will pm you our address and vise-versa eh? I mean, okay?
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Marilyn
We'd love to send you one  If you email your address we'll get onto it.
I'd love to make a passport, suggestions/help please? 
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We are in Wales, we could do this.
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We are also in Wales!
Please PM me as to where you are living, mayappleridge!
And Marilyn, we will send you postcards from all of our travels!
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we would love to join in this from the state-side (even though Hawaii FEELS like another country, technically we're not ... really
hey, this makes me wonder: is anyone interested in just a single exchange? sort of an abbreviated pen-pal idea? we would love to send some of our (really beautiful, btw) postcards in exchange for something from wherever you are.
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Thanks everyone and all the pm messages too - I will pm address details when I can. I have sick children and a lot of contractions so there may be a delay - but I WILL respond.
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Since it looks like there is interest in people connecting to do a U.S. States postcard excahnge, I started a new thread specific to that.
U.S. States Postcard Exchange
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We can send a postcard from London
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Since we are doing our continent study next year we would love to participate (I'm in the US-Ohio)
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We are doing world history/geography next year too. We can send a postcard to all, from AZ,USA.
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We'd love to join in the international exchange ... would you like another state-side one -- this time form the Old Dominion (aka, Virginia) ?
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We'd love to be part of the International exchange, too!
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4Real Forums : Across Time and Place
Topic: Round the World Postcard exchange?
