International help requested for 8 year old boy and class

Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:41 am

I frequent the Mandrake Linux boards and saw this post stickied and thought you guy's might help out the kid and his school project. Here's the URL to the original posting:

http://forum.mandrakeclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=33733

I live in Michigan, USA.
I was approached by my 8 year old son this evening with a problem they are having in school. They have a map of the world in their class room and their teacher has asked the students to speak with their families and friends and ask them to send post cards in to the school. Each post card will be logged as to where it was sent from. The map is white, with black boundaries between countries. As they receive a post card from a country, that country will be colored in. The original idea was to try to get a post card from every state in the USA. As I mentioned, that has been expanded to every country in the entire world.
My Son, Tristen, asked me tonight, " How would we ever ask someone in a different country to help us, if we don't know anyone?? Can we call some numbers on the phone and ask them to help?? ( I am still laughing at that one) I pondered the question for a while, and couldn't think of an answer, until I turned to my computer running Linux 10.1. Then it hit me...an operating system that gets it's input from every corner of the world has the connections to people living in every corner of the world!!

So my question is:
Would you be kind enough to send a postcard to my son's class from whatever corner of the world you are in??

Address:

TC C/O Mrs. Smith's 2nd Grade Class
Lincoln Elementary School
746 N. Maple Grove Ave.
Hudson, MI USA 49247

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:00 am

Will do in about an hour, got to get the "holy land" coloured in.

HaAGen DaZS · Post by **HaAGen DaZS** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:34 am

goin' for a dump, FC?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:08 am

Gotta love the incomplete address...

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:29 am

That's funny, we're doing the same thing at vbCity

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:00 pm

I thought they fixed it so people couldn't use those oh so very annoying all-caps subjects.

Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:25 pm

Defender wrote:I thought they fixed it so people couldn't use those oh so very annoying all-caps subjects.

Opps - and I know better too - sorry

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:45 pm

Hey count on a card from Nuckland.
I live in a Tourist area and I am literally surrounded by postcards at every turn.

Want animals or scenery?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:15 pm

Defender wrote:I thought they fixed it so people couldn't use those oh so very annoying all-caps subjects.

That was on the UBB board, not here.

At any rate, the thread title has been fixed.

Just so you know Cuda, you can hit the edit button and fix the thread title yourself. You don't need mod powers to do it.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:55 pm

I'll send one tomrrow.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:15 am

fliptw wrote:Gotta love the incomplete address...

Anyone care to fix this? Was at post office today and almost mailed it without the street address.

Cuda, fix it please.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:39 am

CDN_Merlin wrote:
fliptw wrote:Gotta love the incomplete address...
Anyone care to fix this? Was at post office today and almost mailed it without the street address.

Cuda, fix it please.

None of you actually stopped and thought on the veracity of this?

Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:15 pm

I checked the original page and thats all there is. Check it out, the original posting URL is in my first post. Sorry I did notice but I will email the guy for the street addy.

Edit.... I sent him a PM and asked for the street addy in a reply to his thread.

I got a responce:

From: David_Nash_434
To: Donald_Ritner_724
Posted: 28 Feb 2005 06:52
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL HELP REQUESTED FOR 8 YEAR OLD BOY AND CLASS Quote message
We live in a very small town so I didn't think to add the street address. Sorry about that Confused Here is the street address:

TC C/O Mrs. Smith's 2nd Grade Class
Lincoln Elementary School
746 N. Maple Grove Ave.
Hudson, MI USA 49247

Thanks for spreading the word! My son is very excited about the response and I'm very grateful to ALL of you for your generosity Very Happy

(sorry about the all CAPS) I didn't know Sad

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Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:42 am

http://forum.mandrakeclub.com/viewtopic ... 6948b00759

It appears it is going very well