Heidelberg, Germany - 21st March 2012
By: nuriayasmin
How exciting, I'm becoming a ToyVoyager. I wonder who will be my first host. I still need my travel tag. Mum promised she'd give it to me tomorrow.
By the way, my name has a special meaning. Mum is an Elvis fan and "Sylvia" is one of the king's songs. It was released on the "Elvis Now" album from 1972. Perhaps you'd like to listen to the song:
\"Sylvia\" - sung by Elvis
And here are the lyrics:
These long lonely evenings
Here I am on the phone
Wondering if she will call
She said she would write me
'Cause she knows I’m alone
But I hear nothing at all
I'm waiting for a word of love from Sylvia.
You think she'd never heard of love my Sylvia,
But when I’m with her Lord, I forgive her
'Cause she's more than the whole world to me
There's nothing like a word of love from Sylvia
The only one I’m thinking of is Sylvia
Feeling so sad now, I'll be so glad now
If I just had my Sylvia with me
That old weepin' willow
Seems to whisper her name
Why did she go away
The tears on my pillow
They're not hard to explain
There's nothing else I can say
I'm waiting for a word of love from Sylvia.
You think she'd never heard of love my Sylvia,
But when I’m with her Lord, I forgive her
'Cause she's more than the whole world to me
There's nothing in the world like Sylvia
The only one I’m thinking of is Sylvia
Feeling so sad now, I'll be so glad now
If I just had my Sylvia with me
As I mentioned in my profile, I like flowers very much so I asked mum to take a first photo of me with this beautiful yellow rose.
Sylvia
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Posted Mar 21, 2012, 9:47 pm Last edited Mar 21, 2012, 9:50 pm by nuriayasmin
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Heidelberg, Germany - 22nd March 2012
By: nuriayasmin
Hi there! Mum kept her promise and gave me my travel tag today. Don't I look great with it?
Before I start travelling I'd like to show you a bit of my home and my hometown. So this is a look from our balcony. The cherry tree left of me is already blossoming. Spring is such a wonderful season.
This is Sammy, one of the two cats who live with us. Sammy is 14 years old and a very tall and handsome cat as you can see.
Bye,
Sylvia
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Posted Mar 22, 2012, 11:15 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 29th March 2012
By: mmm105
Hi Mom,
It's me, Sylvia.
I arrived already in Finland. My traveltime from Germany to Finland was quite fast, don't you think?
Hi hii, it's only a good thing, because now I can start my very first visit and adventure. I just can't wait, what things I will experince here. I'm so exited!!!
Mom, just take a look the following pictures, and you can see, that I'm fine.
When I came out of my envelope, I saw two small creatures, a big cat, and a human, too. They all said they were waiting for me.
Human introduced herself as my hostmom. She told me that the cat might look big, but he is very kind. Two little creatures, other travelling toys, were so happy that I came there.
Both travelling toys gave me a warmly welcome hugs! So lovely!
First was Porridge...
...And then was Luna, who is hostmom's own toy, but is at home right now
I told that I have some little things, surprises, for all in my envelope. And I showed them.
Hostmom's cat wanted to get know me better,too. So, we said "Hello!" to each other in cats' language.
And we all became friends!
Then hostmom showed me from the map, where I am.
First, the map of the hole World...
...then little closer... the Europe...
...little more closer...
...and even more closer...
Mom look, I'm sitting on Finland!!!
How small this country is!!! ...Or I'm a BIG one!!! hi hii... Funny!
Lots of love,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Mar 29, 2012, 2:58 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 30th March 2012
By: mmm105
Hi mom,
Today I was outside with another ToyVoyager Porridge.
We saw this funny, but very lovely sign. Do you like it, mom?
Hostmom showed some places located near her home.
This is the house were my hostmom is living. She lives on the second floor.
And this is it, too, just in different view.
This is just one street near her home. There's still this much snow in here.
There's a small lake very near of hostmom's home. It's still frozen. And in the other side of that lake there's a place for downhill skiing and ski jumping.
hi hii... here I am!
But then, we all get hungry, and we decided to go back inside.
But mom, the refrigerator was totaly EMPTY. Can you believe it, mom?
What can we eat now? We don't have any food...
Well, hostmom said it's time to go shop and buy some food. So, we all went to the car, and hostmom drove to the shop.
This is the place where we are going to buy some food.
Inside the building there's a police car, and I drive it. Cool!
"Bevare all thiefs, here comes the police-Sylvia!"
Mom, hey, MOM!!! Can you believe this? There's a big cow just next to milk products there. Wow!
And guess what I found, too? I found other tigers!!!
It's just little shame, they were not real living ones...
After we came home from the shop, the refrigerator looks much better. Now we can eat something.
Love and kisses,
Sylvia
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Posted Mar 30, 2012, 3:06 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 31st March 2012
By: mmm105
Hello mom,
Today I had very exiting day!
Hostmom told me that today we do something very special. She showed me a book, and told me that pictures and texts in that book is a clue for what we are going to do. How exiting! I was wondering, why hostmom showed me the book of heart disease? Are we going to see a doctor? Or is hostmom sick? I asked those questions from her, and she started to smile, and said that no, she isn't sick, and we are not going to see a doctor. I was so confused... What are we going to do today? Something related to heart, but what would it be?
Hostmom said we must eat something before doing the thing what she has planned for today. We will need energy to keep going. And we would need that energy. So, I decided to cook porridge.
...and then I tasted it.
Ooooh, I'm so full!!! I ate all.
After eating porridge, hostmom said it's time to go. We would go to the hospital. I was wondering why we are going to the centralhospital...
Then hostmom told me she is a nurse in profession, and she will take me to her workplace today. How awesome is that? Wow!
This is the hospital, where my hostmom works today. It's not the main door.
Now we all are ready. Hostmom has changed her clothes. Now we are going to take care of patients who has heart diseases.
How cool is that? There's some EKGs there.
And a stetoscope
Here is my hostmom in working. Can you see me? Just take a look hostmom's front pocket.
Now I'm tired. The day was long, and so exiting.
I'm going to sleep now...
See you soon, mom!
Love and kisses,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Mar 31, 2012, 9:30 pm Last edited Mar 31, 2012, 10:08 pm by mmm105
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 1st April 2012
By: mmm105
Mom, mom, hey mom,
Guess what I did also today?
I visited in 2 small islands!!!
And guess what? I didn't swim or fly to the island, I walked to there!!!
Hostmom was thinking, that because there's several people are skiing on the lake, the ice must be enough strong to walk. So, we walked on the ice of the lake. It was sunny day, but the wind was quite strong.
This is the first island where we are going:
Now we are in the island. It's time to see landcapes and take a little brake. And just enjoy!
I'm in the small island!!!
Mom, I'm here! Sitting on the end of the pier. Can you see me?
I'm just thinking that I could go to swim, if it'd be summer...
Mom, can you see that other small island?
Guess what? We will go there next! I can visit another small island!!!
the same small island little bit closer already.
Mom, I'm there so soon!!!
Sitting and relaxing in this second island.
Now it's time go back.
In this picture you can see the white house (behind those trees). There's my hostmom's home. She lives so close to this lake.
While walking on the ice I noticed this weird thing.
I went to closer to see, what it is.
My hostmom told me, that there has been a hole in the ice, and through the hole some humans are fishing.
I looked through the hole, but it was already frozen, and I didn't see any fish there.
Mom, in this picture you can see both small islands where I visited. First one was the island in right side of the photo, and second island was the smaller one in left side of the photo.
When we were back inside, hostmom showed from the map, where those islands are located.
And mom, look those small arrows, and you can see where exactly we were walking.
and same maps, but satellite maps
CONGRATULATIONS SYLVIA FOR GETTING ONE LIFE MISSION COMPLETED!
Hurray! Mom, I'm so happy!
Love,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Apr 1, 2012, 6:51 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 3rd April 2012
By: mmm105
Hi mom,
Guess what? We got company also today! Cute ToyVoyager Tokki came here from Canada. This is also his very first journey abroud, as like mine. So we have something common.
And here I am, giving a welcome hug for Tokki.
Today we all decided to play little in the climbing tree of hostmom's cat. It was really fun! Cat came to play with us, too.
Then we all hear something weird sound from outside. We wanted to know, where that sound comes from. So, we all went to see trough the window...
...and we saw a big car, who removes snow.
Awwww, we all stared that big car.
Oh no, hostmom's car is under the snow... We must do something about it... hmmmm... We all were thinking, how we can solve this problem.
We decided to go outside and clean hostmom's car out of the snow.
Here I am, cleaning the car:
I'm so exited about tomorrow! Hostmom told me she has something very special plans for tomorrow. What it might be? Just can't wait!
Lots of love,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Apr 3, 2012, 4:03 pm Last edited Apr 3, 2012, 4:22 pm by mmm105
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Harjun Paperi, Jyväskylä, Finland - 4th April 2012
By: mmm105
Hello mom,
I had a wonderful day! Guess what my hostmom has planned for today?
I can come with her in a postcrossing meeting. Wow, I meet new Finnish people there, and chatting with them, and offcourse write many postcards.
(Mom, keep on eye in YOUR mailbox! )
The meeting was in Harjun Paperi, the wonderful little postcard shop in this town. You can see from the following pictures, that I had really good time there!
As you can see, there's something little to eat (pizza, Karelian pies, cookies, chocolate eggs etc.)
Here I am, eating a Karelian Pie with egg-butter. It's something really Finnish thing. It was good!
The Wikipedia tells this about Karelian pies:
Karelian pasties or Karelian pies (South Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka; North Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiiraat, singular karjalanpiiras; Karelian: kalitt, singular kalittoa; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku) are traditional pasties from the region of Karelia. Today they are eaten throughout Finland.
The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also had wheat alongside of rye to improve the baking characteristics of the available rye breads. The common fillings of this era were barley and talkkuna. The 19th century first introduced potato and buckwheat as new fillings, and later due to trade, also rice and millet.
Nowadays in the most familiar and common recipe the pasties are made from a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Butter, often mixed with boiled egg (egg butter or munavoi), is spread over the hot pasties before eating.
And here I am, drinking milk.
Then it's time to write some postcards
Mom look, how cute Easter things and postcards there was!!!
just taking a little nap
Riding a bike, hi hiiii!!!!
Look mom!
There's flowers in shoes!!!
Here are we all toys. They are my friends!
Love,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Apr 5, 2012, 7:10 pm Last edited Apr 5, 2012, 7:13 pm by mmm105
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 5th April 2012
By: mmm105
MOM, HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!
Hugs and kisses,
Sylvia
xxx
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Posted Apr 5, 2012, 7:49 pm
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