I’ve been waiting for enough free time to do this thing. In case you didn’t know, I was teaching for one week in my mum’s school sometime in February this year and have successfully introduced my students to Postcrossing. It’s been like 7 months now so I guess it’s time for me to track down my students to see if they still keep on Postcrossing after I left the school or otherwise.

By the way, some of them (whom I can tell are active) have been emailing me several times to say hello and ask for free postcards :D Hehe. Cute students, aren’t they? And though I am busy I once had time to send some envelopes for the first bacth who requested. And now there laying a few envelopes to be mailed I don’t know when. Sigh, a busy teacher, I am.

Okay, now that Postcrossing has got the option to search user by region again therefore it helps me alot to track down my students. Let’s see in Kelantan, people who registered 7 months ago (203 and 204 days ago to be exact) were most probably my students. Let’s assume here all users registered in these particular days, 14 years old (or unless mentioned other ages), are my students. So I found 42 records, listed as in table below.

Hmmm, hmmmmm, and hmmmmmmm. 

Though I am impressed that a few students have really inherited my craze on Postcrossing with their more than 15 cards sent/received, I am not really happy to know that apparently quite many of them left this activity by the very day they registered. Not much interested? Maybe. In fact, I kind of see these Postcrossing students into several practicing groups:

1) Students who are still active (based on last seen date) and keep sending postcards whenever they have chance to do so, and they do receive and register postcards.

2) Students who still log in regularly but only sent one or two postcards probably from the register day when I gave them free cards to send. And receive equally few cards. This group perhaps don’t know where to buy postcards again afterwards and to mail them themselves. Or do they really think they’ll still be receiving postcards even they stop sending?? 

3) Students who sent one or two cards that I gave them, they understand the responsibility to register a postcard. Therefore they did receive one or two postcards in return, registered them, but never seemed to log in again since.

4) Students who registered that day, sent one or two postcards that I gave them, but it seems it was also the last day they ever logged in the website :( They probably received one or two cards but don’t register them. Haih. I knew this case had chance to happen, but still..

5) Students who registered that day, but they already told me they didn’t want to send cards (not much interested, maybe) and some were put in inactive mode. They didn’t send any postcards so I guess they don’t receive postcard too. At least nobody’s postcards left unregistered in this case.

6) Or some in group (4) may also be those who sent one postcard but it got lost and never registered (?). 

7) And!! This one is happy news finally. I was chatting with one student a few weeks ago, and she said she’s got 4 accounts and active!! LOL. This is way more advanced than the teacher herself. Maybe I should introduce them to the forum.