First Country of the Month!

The first featured country will be.....

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Flag stylings by my husband B. :o)

The Czech Republic!

I didn't have any postcards coming my way last week so I took the alternate route and requested an address from Postcrossing to send a card to*. And so we have the first country of the month!

I'm very excited about the Czech Republic as I've wanted to go to Prague since I was a teenager and saw the video for INXS's "Never Tear Me Apart”, which if you're familiar with it - and if you're not, go watch it now :) - takes place in a very beautiful, romantic Prague.

I'm also old enough to remember the Velvet Revolution and was so pleased when a poet - Vaclav Havel - became their first democratic president.

More recently through Postcrossing and through the move of one of my FB friends to Brno (Ola Marilia! :o) [does a little wave]), I've become a tiny bit more acquainted with the country, but really, only a scooch.

So I'm very much looking forward to trying out some yummy food, learning some history, czecking out some books - haha, i crack myself up - and anything else I can find to do in the NYC area and at home that's Czech related.

I'll post after I complete any of the various activities that I'm able to find, but there won't be a set amount of postings. But at least once a week I'll report on how my trip to all that is Czech is going :)

Bon Voyage to me!

*Card I sent Lucie in Zdanice in the Czech Republic

Choosing a country

I played around with various ideas on how I'd choose a country each month. I wanted it to be random and I wanted it to be eclectic. In the end, I decided to use another one of my hobbies to decide the order of this one.

I participate in Postcrossing, a great site for people who like snail mail. Really, go check it out. I'll wait.

Are you back? Doesn't it sound fun? I forget how I first heard of it, but it's brought immeasurable fun (and friends!) into my life since I first joined, about 2 years ago.

Anywho, back to the divination of the countries....

So, I figured that whatever card showed up in my post box during the last week of a given month, would determine the theme country for the next one.

If in the case of this first month of July, I didn't have any cards coming my way, I'd always leave a card unsent from my allotted amount, so that I could then select a card to send through Postcrossing. Whatever country that turned out to be, would then become the chosen theme country for the upcoming month.

In the unlikely event that no card is due to arrive and I've run out of cards to send out as well...then I'd probably pick one out of a hat or something ;o)

But I think using Postcrossing will work great with this!

Stay tuned for the first chosen country :o)

P.S. Picture above is solely used as an example and does not represent the first theme country :o)