Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011

Briefmarken aus Åland

... und ich freue mich bereits jetzt darauf, nächstes Jahr Postkarten mit Briefmarken aus Åland in alle Welt zu schreiben!
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9 Kommentare:

  1. Ronda Kisner20. Juli 2011 um 18:32

    I am a bit confused by this. The stamps are pretty.

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  2. Thomas Willerich20. Juli 2011 um 22:23

    I like those stamps, too. Although the Åland Islands belong to Finland, they are quite autonomous and have their own postal service. I look forward to send you a stamp on a postcard from there next year!

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  3. Ronda Kisner20. Juli 2011 um 23:54

    They sound a bit like Puetro Rico.

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  4. Thomas Willerich21. Juli 2011 um 09:24

    It might be... Well, I have read a bit about Puerto Rico in the Internet. It sounds somehow strange: The head of the state is the President of the Unites States and the people there have the U.S. citizenship, but they cannot vote in presidential elections. Politics is sometimes difficult to understand...

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  5. Ronda Kisner21. Juli 2011 um 19:07

    I don't really understand it either. It is like they are citizens, but yet they are not. Some people here treat them like they are foreign. I know that there is a lot of politics going on there in regards to becoming a US state.

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  6. Thomas Willerich21. Juli 2011 um 21:19

    Some weeks ago I read the Wikipedia article about the 51st state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state). There is even an updated design of the U.S. flag - but who will be first? Puerto Rico or Washington, D.C.?

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  7. Ronda Kisner21. Juli 2011 um 23:25

    Ahh...but then there is this:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43769035/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/statehood-questioned-so-north-dakota-vote-fix/

    So maybe North Dakota will become a territory and Puerto Rico a state!

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  8. Thomas Willerich22. Juli 2011 um 07:46

    What a weird story! Well, even if it is not that important for many people there, but only for this man, it is very reasonable to correct what has to be corrected. Welcome (back) to the United States!

    By the way, have you already been to your neighboring state North Dakota?

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  9. Ronda Kisner22. Juli 2011 um 13:46

    No, I have never been there. My grandmother was born there though. I would like to go find my great-grandparent's graves and a bridge that is named after one of them.

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