This week on the Spotlight interview, we feature Rita (Gogge1), from Denmark. Besides being an avid postcrosser, Rita is also into penpalling and baking!
Here is what she had to say:
- How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?
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One of my old penpals told me about Postcrossing, and I decided to give it a try. Soon I was totally hooked on this project! And I have to admit that I just love it. To me it is not just sending and receiving postcards from all ower the world. Well of course thats a huge part of it, but at the same time, I see a lot of views from arround the world, and I also “meet” a lot of great people. And then I do learn a lot about both my own country (I love to write and tell about what’s on the cards I send out) as well as many other countries. That’s a huge part of it for me.
- Do you have any other interesting hobbies?
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Oh yes, I love history, which goes a bit hand in hand with Postcrossing, doesn’t it? I also enjoy penpalling (but sadly I haven’t much time for that these days because I’m studying). And I always bake our own bread, which I’ve done for ages. I also bake some cakes etc. now and then.
- Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!
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Here are my own mailbox where I pick my mail 5 – 6 days a week and the postbox where do send most of my postcards from. It’s standing just outside the local liborary in the tiny town I’m living in.
Sadly there aren’t many post offices left in Denmark. They close down, and we have to drive around 13 kilometres to the nearest post office.
I keep my postcards in albums and boxes.
- Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special.
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This is difficult, because I’ve received so many beautiful cards… It’s simply sooo hard to pick one, two or even 10 cards and make them to favourites. But these are some of those I really do love (among many many cards I love):
- What is it your favorite part of the Postcrossing process?
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Surely it’s exciting to see which card I receive myself – I like that very much. But my favourite part is to find nice cards, and to pick them for each person I’m going to send a card. I always try to find the perfect card for each postcrosser, if its possible for me at all. And I always read the postcrossers wishes for cards and try to fullfill them.
- Have you been surprised by any place that you have received a postcard from or sent a postcard to?
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Yes! Places like Tuvalu, Turkmenistan, etc. I’d never heard of these places before I started Postcrossing.
- Have you met any other members in real life?
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I’ve meet Dorthe from Denmark and Christa from Germany several times to meetups arround Denmark. And at the Postcrossing meetup in Copenhagen in September 2011, I’ve meet GForp from Denmark, Lotty from Belgium, Ritva, Dollart from Finland and several more from Finland, Poland, etc.
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As I was reading the replies to the questions I thought - yeah, this could be me replying in exactly the same way especially about choosing cards for recipient Postcrossers and learning so much about the world (and closer to home) around us. Happy Postcrossing. Regards from Nora
Sad that post offices are closing at your place. However, all the best!
By Ritva you mean postcrosser Levisia and her husband who where in postcrossing meetup in Copenhagen. We had all wonderful time and nice to see familiar face getting to spotlight :)
Yes Dollart I also meet Levisia in Copenhagen. I just didn't have her user name her on the site. Thank you for sending it to me dollart.
Hejsa Rita ...hvor hyggeigt at møde dig her !!! :) Very nice to meet you here . I know that you are are a GREAT "postcard shopper" ...looking forward to meet you again !
Oh yes ...and Rita you are right good old "Post Office" are very rare in Denmark now . We find Post Shops/Kiosks in supermarkets ...and most of them don't know much about stamps :( Good old stamps are also history in Denmark ... all commerativean definitive stamps are stickers now ( a few minisheets are still out as non stickers) !
You right Christa. Stamps are like history today. If you go to a Postshop etc. And ask for stamps. They usually try to give you those standart stickers with the Queen on. Sometimes you are lucky to find a place where they do have some other stamps. So now a days my Postoffice are moved in to the Internet, where I can chose those stamps I like. So that I get some different to send out to Postcrossers around the world.
Another really interesting article here!
I would also love to receive a postcard from El Salvador and Tuvalu some day...:-)
Yay! I received on of my favourite cards from Rita! Some beautful view cards above and a lovely interview :-)
I love spotlights!!! I love it when I refresh the home page and see there's a new blog to read! :-)
congratulations being on Spotlight!
Thanks for sharing your interesting story!
Wow, gorgeous cards! :-)
How cool that you know Christa and dollart! I do too! :-D
My most popular official card went out to you, this one:
http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/AT-47657
Hurrah, a postcrosser I know. Great to get a Dane here on the blog. We really have to find a new date for a meeting, Rita, and hopefully we can meet more postcrossers.
Wow! Turkmenistan! very nice.
Nice to see you here Rita! I had the luck to receive 2 beautiful cards from you.
I haven't got any cards from Denmark or Norway yet... I wish there were more Postcrossers in these countries!
I sent her a card yesterday, I hope she will like it!
I have received a nice royal family card from you. Nice to see you here Rita.
I like so many cards of yours~It is funny to see spotlight!!!
I am from El Salvador, is an honor that a postcard from my country is in your favorites list! :)
hi, dorthe!!
interesting to read you here!! wishing you all the best to be ready to go for more meetings!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Rita for sharing us her Postcrossing experience. I still keep Rita's DK-7014 postcard well.
Internet, e-mail, mobile phone...etc. have alomost replaced traditional or old-fashioned methods of communication, such as letter writing. The same situation also happens in Taiwan. I appreciate Postcrossing help us keep the old methods of corresponding. I really hope my 2 children can still have the chance to see and walk into post offices and even paste real stamps on the postcards or envelopes in the future as their father and grandfather did in the past. Thanks Rita again for sharing.
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