Postcrossing is all the rage!

If you still think that writing and sending postcards is a thing of the past in today's digital world, you'd be surprised.  As these world statistics from the postcrossing.com website show, handwritten messages are alive and well and becoming increasingly more popular.  

Postcrossing Stats (as of April 27, 2016)

620,552 members

211 countries

802 postcards/hour

35,437,152 postcards received

454,804 postcards traveling

178,664,812,793 km traveled

4,458,261 laps around the world 

Our postcrossing map at the EOI

Our postcrossing map, located in the school lobby, is really taking shape.  Stop by and check out where the cards have travelled from and read the messages we have received from (almost) all over the world. We've received at least one from every continent as shown on our Map Tracker tab except for Oceania.  Hopefully we'll get a card soon from Australia or New Zealand.  

Beautiful card from another group of English students in Finland

Some Finnish students studying English have sent us this postcard.  They too find value in the postcrossing project and the opportunity it gives them to practice their English.  Check out the original stamp!

Another card is off to China.

Intermediate 1 students have worked together to send this original postcard and message to Beijing, China. Postcrossers who have received this series of postcards have commented on their originality and the RAIN!

 

Our first card to Greece is in the mail

Diana and Judit have written a very original text on this postcard.  They talk about languages and words that they particularly like in French and English.  The stamp is nice and reflects one of those words. What are your favorite words in other languages?  Please send us a post.

3 more advanced 1 students are putting their English to use through postcrossing

Patricia, María and Noemi have joined efforts to send this lovely message to our lucky friend in California.  Like their classmates' card, theirs also shows an original reflection of the cathedral (the bell) in a puddle of rain water in the street.  

Notice how postcrossing brings a smile to their faces! 

Advanced 1 students have started postcrossing!

Rocío and Magdalena have joined our postcrossing project with this very original postcard depicting the reflection of the cathedral in wet stones.  Gabriele in Germany is the lucky recipient of the card.  

And here are our happy postcrossers!