Combining work and joy

I will have an exam in Russian next week and I have been a little worried about it as I feel like everything I have learnt during this spring is just a big mess in my head. I somehow can not put all the grammar rules, words and pronunciations together so that I was able to produce some understandable language.

So I spent most of the morning and afternoon by studying at home, and then I thought that I could as well combine the work and the hobby. So what to do to succeed in that?

First I took my big box...

... that contains all my empty postcards and folded cards and also my stamps. Everything I need to write a postcard, so to speak.

I did buy quite a lot of stamps last year, right before the prices went up so I still have quite a good inventory of stamps.

I have a soft spot for these old(ish) tin cans and buy them in flea markets. The tiny one holds my priority labels and in the bigger one I storage some more stamps and customs related goodies.

So here comes the work-part! As I am sending to repeated countries I was pretty sure I would get multiple addresses to Russia, so I took my Russian book to keep me company while writing cards and decided to try to express myself as good as I can in that language.

It is good to have some help, especially with some verbs... 

And here we are! I got to write and send nine cards to Russia this time and managed to revise not only vocabulary, but also grammar for the exam that is coming up - and for the future's sake, too, I hope. The best part is that it did not feel like studying at all, I actually enjoyed this a lot.