Hi everyone!
I'm looking for penpals all over the world, snail mail as well as email! As I'm studying Japanese at university, I'd be happy about Japanese people dropping a line or two.
I love taking walks, shopping (mainly for books), cooking, especially internationa​l food (hey, tell me about your favourite foods or send me a recipe!)
Plants are another passion, I grew up in the countryside and just everyone has a garden. As I'm living in the city now, I don't have a garden, so I substitute gardening with reading about gardening.
I also love to travel, I spent one year in Tokyo, and visited many countries for holidays, e.g. France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Argentina, Japan, USA...
I'm going to marry soon and we plan to spend our honeymoon in Vienna, I'm really looking forward to it!!

So wherever you're from, drop me a line, tell me something about yourself and then hopefully we can become longlasting snail mail pals!

My profile changes every once in a while, or more often^_~ depending on my mood

Current projects:
finishing term papers on
- Alan Moore's Watchmen
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Current obsession:
*Find Random User* button: when I visited your profile without leaving a message I'm probably on a *Find random user*button-​clickine-ram​page, result: not getting any work done ^_~°

No romance!

Cooking&​(internation​al)food, reading(fant​asy, romance, mystery, 'real' literature),​ gardening, and lots more

Nothing in particular as long as it is not monotonous, but mind the lyrics!

older movies
Casablanca (on the bottom line its a movie about male friendship, no? ^_~), The Thin Man, Howl's Moving Castle, The Beauty and the Beast (Ghibli&​Disney, yeah!)
Fifth Element, Sahara, God's Army
If I had time to go to the movies, I'd list recent ones ones as well...

Gilmore Girls, NCIS, Fury, Buffy, Die rote Zora
Sports:
soccer: World Championship​, European Championship​
occasionally​ boxing (when it's broadcasted at a reasonable time...I just don't know why I like it, I don't even really unterstand the rules - are there? - the mysteries of life)

changes every once in a while: Harry Potter, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Patricia Briggs, Suzanne Brockmann, Elizabeth Peters, Tamora Pierce, Rita Mae Brown, Byron, Shakespeare,​ Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Christo is one of the best books ever written!), Angélique, childrens books from authors like Tamora Pierce, C.S. Lewis, S.E. Hinton,  Eoin Colfer, Astrid Lindgren...