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✿✿✿ Hello! ✿✿✿

My name is Karolina, I'm 23 and I live in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. I'm a university student of applied linguistics, majoring in English and Japanese language & literature. I also work as a freelance translator and sometimes as a foreign language teacher.

Apart from English and Japanese I can also speak German and have studied some Swedish, French, Italian and Greek in the past. The list of languages I'm interested in is never-ending, so I'd be really happy if you could write something in your native tongue (preferably along with its English translation :D) on the back side of the postcard. Other than that I'd love to hear about you - your hobbies, interests, quirks, best travel memories, favourite books/movies, the place you live in etc.

Apart from languages I also love doing martial arts, yoga, skiing (being active in general), traveling, watching movies & TV series, cooking, painting and reading.

✉ Specific language requests ✉

[UK] Please write something in your local dialect! A sentence, an expression or even a single word would be awesome.

[DE/AT/CH] Schreib mir bitte auf Deutsch! Ich habe Deutsch für lange Zeit nicht benutzt, aber würde mir sehr gerne erinnern.

[JP] 日本語で書いてください！私は日本語がまだそんなに上手ではないけど、やさしいテキストを分かるのは問題ではない。さらに、あなたの出身地に関する何か面白いことについて喜んで読みたい！ありがとうございます。 ^^

Of course, I appreciate every card I get, but I have a special interest in these themes:

✿ cats ✿ dogs ✿ penguins ✿ sheep ✿ sealife ✿ cute animals in general ✿ space, moon, stars ✿ Salem, witchcraft ✿ USA national park ✿ sea, ocean ✿ rain, snow, mountains ✿ skiing ✿ martial arts ✿ sports ✿ coffee, tea, hot chocolate ✿ food, recipes ✿ groceries, supermarket (ad cards are ok) ✿ Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt) ✿ illustrated maps ✿ books, libraries, newspapers ✿ British culture ✿ Harry Potter ✿ Pink Panther ✿ music ✿ k-pop ✿ Gotochi ✿ anime ✿ Studio Ghibli ✿ sea ✿ Japanese literature ✿ Japanese art (especially ukiyo-e) ✿ art in general

Sorry, but I'm not very fond of typical touristy cards, religious motifs, violence, snakes, spiders, babies.

✿ necklace ✿ ring ✿ earrings ✿ good-quality skincare, makeup or nail polish ✿ natural cosmetics (not tested on animals) ✿ anything from LUSH ✿ bath bombs ✿ lip balm ✿ face mask ✿ candle ✿ socks (EU size 39/40) ✿ something knitted ✿ something I can use for travelling ✿ useful kitchen item ✿ useful bathroom item ✿ chocolate - especially milk chocolate with raisins/caramel/crispy rice, Fazer, Wonka, Lacta ✿ Japanese sweets and snacks - especially chocolate with matcha and rare KitKat flavours, snacks with soybean flour (kinako), grape-flavoured sweets ✿ cooking ingredients from your country (for example spices, curry paste, dry ingredients etc.) ✿ tea bags, coffee and hot chocolate sachets - especially flavoured black tea, green tea, Nordquist, T2, Stash ✿ something from Japan - especially from Daiso/¥100 store ✿ Japanese learning materials - suitable for N2/N3 level ✿ Studio Ghibli theme ✿ k-pop theme ✿ Harry Potter theme ✿ Pink Panther theme ✿ (kawaii) stationery - especially plastic files, fine writing pens, shaped paper clips, notebooks, letter sets ✿ Paperchase theme ✿ Chronicle Books stationery ✿ cat theme ✿ penguin theme ✿ a book/magazine (second hand is ok) ✿ a nice surprise, something you'd love to receive yourself

PLEASE, don't send me: food with nuts or alcohol, religious stuff, cosmetics tested on animals, bad quality/broken items

Thank you so much in for every card/letter/package :)