Philately

I am so glad for having such wonderful friends around the world whom are still maintaining and cherish our way of communication by sending postcards and letters through traditional mail, although we also updated ourselves by means of new communication technology. The benefits are not only keeping the tradition alive, but also my daughter Amira found herself a new love with philately. What unique now is my friends send the letters addressed to Amira instead to me. Which is good for her. She's not only getting letters which contain stories of the Grand Canyon and the buffalo, the statue of a boy in Brussels, why the Hungarians call them self Magyar, and poems from Italy. She also received presents, like Belgium chocolate, CD and pictures. So now Amira is in love with philately even more. I don't know how she knew how to peel off the stamps after I helped her cut them off from the envelope. She took a small bowl and filled it with water and she put the stamps which were still sticked to the paper into the water. She waited for them and then the next few minutes I saw her peeled them off very carefully, which is unusual for her, and she dried them and then put them in her special place for stamps. She never received any instruction or example of how to do these steps. She did the process as if she had done it many times before.

by : Laksmira

      February 2010