But why am I talking about postcards from Russia? Well actually, I'm more concerned with postcards to Russia at this moment. I'm sitting in my living room, addressing a Lake Michigan postcard to a stranger whom I have never met or heard of before. Why? Because I joined something.
I am a member of the Hogwarts Running Club (HRC). It's a group made up of geeky Harry Potter fans who also happen to like walking and running. And we use our walking and running mileage to make donations to charities via an app called Charity Miles. Check it out, it's pretty cool. And the group is a really great group of very supportive people that's really more like a really big family.
What's it got to do with postcards? Well, nothing really. But the group admin posts a profile of a member once a week or so, highlighting the person's history with running and the HRC as well as other hobbies they enjoy. This particular member has a hobby called postcrossing. Huh? What the heck is postcrossing, you ask? Yep, I asked the same thing, Lucky for me, they provided a link: www.postcrossing.com so I checked it out. Simply put, you sign up, they give you the address of some other random person who signed up, and you send them a postcard. By signing up, your address gets thrown in the hat too, so other people may be randomly assigned your address and send you a postcard. There are people around the world doing this. So you get real for real mail (that's NOT a bill! Who wouldn't appreciate some bill-less mail?!), kind of meet people around the world, and get picture postcards from who knows where. I thought it was cool, signed up, and immediately requested an address. The address I was assigned? Yep, you guessed it. Russia.
