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Here is a sample sign up sheet. It will store your name and address to a spreadsheet in google docs.

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This is just a sample of how it could work. You don't need to fill this out. The results can also be seen by anyone the host allows access to, or with a link.

This is what the results would look like.

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A year ago I got super into cool stationery after I designed a 3d printed wax seal and started sending some of my friends notes. That hobby sort of fell away because no one else got into it, but I just found this subreddit and you seem like a nice enough person to test the waters with.

I'm 22, male, and I just got moved to Salt Lake City from the silicon valley. I'm a software engineer for a 3d printing company, I love making things: software, plastic, electronic, or otherwise. I'm a major geek, technically and pop culturally, mostly movies.

If any of this interests you, shoot me a pm!

I Saw something similar in a documentary on Elizabethan spying, it's known as letter locking and there are a few different options.

http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/the-art-of-letterlocking.html

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On my letters I use a seal but i might get some A4 rather than my Normal A5 to test out if a seal will hold during postage by posting something to myself

Have you ever heard of Mubi? https://mubi.com/showing You might like it. It's sort of like a very narrow, curated Netflix. They've got 30 movies at a time, but they've got a lot of stuff like Godard. In fact, today's film is by him: Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company.

I would recommend Jacques Vallee's, "Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds". Here's an Amazon link to it: https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Parallel-Worlds/dp/0809237962

Well, just to share, in addition to Duolingo, another tool you could try to build up your Dutch vocabulary on your own from scratch is with the Beginner Dutch app.

You could try learning some basic Dutch or Polish words and phrases on your own for free with apps like the Beginner Dutch and Beginner Polish.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shex.beginnerdutch

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shex.beginnerpolish

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14578407-penpal?ac=1

It apparently started off as a post on here or somewhere else, then was lengthened for a novel.

Sorry if you were wanting to read it, and i've spoiled it for you!

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I practice mahasati meditation on daily basis, finding a good meditation technique suits yourself can be the best thing ever happened in your life (not only I says that), it can improve your self-awareness, make you watch yourself in an impartial way, you can do some google search about it, or you can search LuangPor Teean on youtube, and you can also search mahasati insight meditation in a podcast app, if you use castbox like I do, here is the URL for a podcast I just found yesterday: https://castbox.fm/va/1994889

Insight meditation may have a strong relationship with Buddhism, but Buddhism is actually not a religion in its core, it is a very special theory and practice about watching and knowing yourself, there are even some priests in other religion learn its meditation technique, I don't believe some Buddhist teaching either.

hey! i'm learning japanese as well, if you're looking for someone to practice with, by all means PM any time :)

Either way, i saw that you were looking for a good translator online. this is awesome, and I have found the Genki textbooks to be extremely helpful (we use them in my class, i've looked at other books, but thank heaven my teacher gave us these, they teach in a way that makes much more sense.)

hope to hear from you :)

Have you heard of Slowly? I think it'll be a good fit for you, it's like an email pen pal except the emails take a few hours/days to arrive depending on both your physical distance. Been using it for about a month now and it's quite fun.

P.S. Love the Fruits Basket anime and can't wait for the second season!

I see you are want to perfect your English, so here are my suggestions:

• When you search for things on the Internet, search only in English. This will force you to practice your writing and reading skills. Do not search in your own language. Do that only when you are looking for a local business or you want to buy something from your country. Otherwise, if you have school work, or are trying to learn something new, only study in English.
• Make friends who do not speak your language or cannot speak it very well. That way, you will be forced to socialize with them in a common language. And the most common, worldwide language is English. This way you will practice your speaking and listening skills.
• Practice your vocabulary with fun apps. Here is one that is really nice and entertaining (also free and has regular updates): Ultimate English Vocabulary Game - Apps on Google Play.
• When you watch your favorite movies or shows, watch them only in English and without subtitles in your own language. That way, if you do not understand a word, you may be able to make correlations with the images on the screen. Or you will simply be more interested to search for that word on your own.

I hope this helped!

I use this pad and then either fountain pens(cheap ones) or the Papermate Flair Felt Tips in fun colors, I have stickers and some misc scrapbook items I will try and include, I do have a return address stamp I actually had prior to starting to pen pal. And then I like to add some washi tape on the envelope. I use greeting card sized plain envelopes(just my preference). So really nothing crazy or fancy, the scrapbook stuff has mostly come from my mom’s stash. I try and always be on the lookout for stickers? But I’m such a sucker for stickers which I then sorta hoard😂 but you don’t need anything fancy. I’ve received letters on notebook paper. It’s the effort that matters most, not what the letter’s written on.

Just to share, you could try apps like Beginner Norwegian to get started at learning some of the common Norwegian words and phrases from scratch on your own.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shex.beginnernorwegian

I know some of the authors you mentioned but I've never read any of them. I tend to pick books by the cover art so I've picked up several titles without actually knowing what they would be (I have prescription glasses but I don't wear them if I can help it). One of the most surprisingly different but enjoyable reads was The Prince of Clouds. It had 'the little prince' style cover art, so I was expecting the same. Turns out it can give Sun Tzu a run for his money. The Devil Wears Prada also had a stiletto on its cover before the movie came out so I bought it. Almost got crazy rich Asians but it's price was also more expensive than the usual paperback so I put it back on the shelf. Late to game and finally giving in to curiosity, my purchase two weeks ago was rich dad, poor dad. I was halfway done with it but my mom took it off my hands for the reason that it looked cute with the purple cover. Still helpful that it pointed out my shopping mistakes just the same.

Trying to read through our house library so I can do a Marie Kondo and dispose without remorse since we recently had termites. I'm currently reading Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, and the flow is similar to talking to a wingman, of life. Which to some extent sounds more of a bro and is turning me off. But I'm powering through it because his advise does make sense. I think I like Dale Carnegie's version better though.

Oh, poetry?! Nice! Let's see, currently, I'm reading two biographies (You caught me in one of my non-fiction moods!). One is The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, and the other is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Yes, I'm addicted to the new Hamilton musical...but I have a feeling it's not as big in Canada ha! As far as movies...hmm, I haven't really had much time to go see any new ones in theaters, but two of my all time favorites are The Imitation Game, and Interstellar.

I haven't read those books. Maybe I will look into them. I am reading Tales from Nowhere by Lonely Planet, Shantaram, and have just started Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I have been a soldier for ten years now and currently live around Seattle, Washington. It is very easy to love the outdoors here. I live between mountains, ocean, forests, lakes, and rivers. I'm actually starting a mountaineering course next week.

Thanks for your reply! Joining you publicly instead of switching to PM.

You might enjoy the books 'Succeed' and/or 'So Good They Can't Ignore You', which I've found useful in my own search for my calling. TL;DR - competence and skill correlates with happiness. (edit: and autonomy and connectedness to other people)

My takeaway was that I can choose what skills I want to get good at, put in the time, and then reap the rewards -- not only monetary, but the sheer pleasure of being good at something and doing it well. There isn't some perfect career out there waiting for me to find it, rather I need to consciously choose what I want to get good at and go after it.

Presumably I'd choose skills that lead to a place that I'd like to be (whether that means working-from-home or running my own business to being part of an early-stage startup or a more established company with a tight-knit team that's like family.) To me, the day-to-day work matters a little less than the context

I think being a feeler gets easier with age; if only because you're more sure of yourself, and it's easier to pick-and-choose the people you choose to surround yourself with. In my case, you can also start to exert some direction on your life and choose where you want to go and the type of work you will be doing.

In my case, my idealism has shrunk from worldwide ambitions to enabling change on a much more local level.

I am currently using http://www.learn-norwegian.net/ as well as some youtube videos. I am looking at buying this cd and book set: http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Norwegian-complete-language-course/dp/0415286859

I have just started to learn the language so if you have any books/cd's you can let me know of that would be grand.

Cheers, Kevin