2299 - Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Samira is a fellow colleague in Dresden and teaches music and maths, although her area of study in university was French and Catholicism. She hopes to be able to teach those someday. That's a common story with many teachers, not teaching what their major or minor was in school.

Dresden was first documented in 1206. It means 'forest' or 'lowland forest dweller.' People have been living in and around Dresden since Neolithic times, around 7500 BCE. The Linear Pottery Culture tribes lived in the area. These people were known by the type of pottery they produced.

Dresden is one of the greenest cities in Europe with 62% of the city either green space or forest. It is also considered one of the least stressful cities in the world.

ESC Dresdner Eislöwen is the local hockey team and they play in the second tier DEL2 league.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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