Foreign. While foreign (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general.
For this week’s challenge I am sharing these photos which I think goes with this week’s theme Foreign.
This card came from a foreign person, foreign place, sent in a very romantically foreign way on my Birthday last February 2011.
Isn’t it too foreign to still received cards or letters nowadays?
With all of these things that technology has been offering like E-cards, emails, graphic greetings online this traditional way of communication had been slowly dying and sort of being forgotten…
and receiving one makes us feel foreignly unusual.
Perhaps its because I’m part of the last generation to grow up with computers being a new technology, I consider the physical card to be something to be treasured over a cybercard. You can’t hold the e-card in your hands and have it bring back memories the way the physical one can invoke memories of the past. But then again, sending an ecard, especially over a long distance means you can forget to the last minute, and still get it there in time. 🙂
so it’s a 50-50 here keith?
well i prefer to receive and send physical cards too…i don’t know i might just be an oldies type of person but its really different when you receive and send one. 🙂
Gosh, sometimes I think I’m a foreign relic for having a pen pal list. Isn’t nice mail good some days when all you get is bills and hate mail? Totally agreeing with you…nicely foreign. 🙂
exactly veronica.
thanks for dropping by.
It is very romantic too.. 😉
I so agree eof737…
very romantic! 🙂
Great idea for the challenge 🙂
thanks you.
🙂
Interesting take on the challenge. Makes me think about all the things that will be “foreign” to the next generation. I love snail mail. Even Paperless Post has added paper cards. There’s nothing like ink on paper. Toni
Thank you Toni!
Well if Shakespeare is alive for sure he would not love the idea of emails and e-cards :).
I realized that one disadvantage of technology is that it is slowly erasing the :traditional” word in every sense, well it is not actually bad thing at all as it is a part of development but it is just kinda upsetting I guess.
I love sending snail mails to some of my friends before specially the one which I decorated and I also missed writing on the scented stationary like I used to way back when I was 14 years old. :)I must agree, there’s nothing like ink on paper.
Foreign letters! Oh I miss miss receiving them! Nice entry! ♥
If I could just send you lol.
I remember when I was young I used to write on “Ang Tv”,if you know that Jolina part when she reads snail mails. I used to send her one and decorate it my own.
There’s really a Big difference between emails/e-cards and snail mails or cards. I guess the difference is when you see the sender’s handwriting on it that it makes it special. Now it’s really foreign to do so.
Foreign. While foreign (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general. I’m sure you’ll be able to find some great examples of this My photo is from a recent trip to Bulgaria, where my inability to understand Cyrillic characters was one of the things which made *me* feel foreign.
When you meet someone local in another country, most people will be quick to tell you something about their city/province/country that they are proud of. Pride and patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once in Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, “This is how we cross the street in PALAU!” Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride for his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this.
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