My name is Sylvia and I'm a homemaker and retired middle school teacher for English and history. I'm married to my best friend and we live a quiet and simple life in a small mountain village. We don't have any human children but we live with a bossy cat and two budgies. I'm a rather introvert but friendly and open-minded person. Some of my loves and passions are animals, nature, history, pen palling, foreign countries and cultures, collecting postcards, coins and banknotes, swapping, reading, colouring in, solving jigsaws, family research, watching DVDs, hiking, shopping and taking photos.