Imagine a Day in Japan

Have you ever been to Japan? Do you perhaps live in Japan? Do you dream of visiting Japan?

But maybe your finances, school, home and family obligations, work, or something else keeps you from realizing your dream of visiting this fine country. Would you visit Tokyo? Okinawa? Mt. Fuji? The Hiroshima Peace Memorial? Would you take language courses before going?

Well, this swap is about going there in our imaginations, if we haven't been, or sharing what it was like if we have been. You will send one partner these items:

1. a letter
2. a small souvenir/memento/keepsake, valued at a minimum of $6-8 USD, not including cost of shipping

First, you will write your partner a letter about the places you would visit, the things you would do, maybe meals you might eat, the hotel in which you would stay, who you would go with, who you might meet there.....You get the idea. Make it as real as you can. Make it past tense, as if you actually went, or make it future tense, as if you were planning the trip of your dreams.

Second, your letter will be accompanied by some sort of small souvenir/memento/keepsake of your real or imaginary trip. Ideas for your souvenir/keepsake/memento might be something like:

• some postcards and a scrapbook page about your trip (even if it's an imaginary trip)
• a small necklace of a Japanese symbol (or earrings if your partner wears earrings)
• a menu from a Japanese restaurant and some decorative chopsticks
• a small handmade item that evokes Japan
• a a small journal with a Japan landscape on the cover
• a map and travel book of Japan or a specific area of Japan
• a "passport" you create from your trip to Japan, with a Japan phrasebook
• a small craftbook from Japan
• Japanese tea and a book about the tea ceremony

These are just examples of possibilities!

Make it nice. Make it special. Make it as real as you can (if it's an imaginary trip).

Be sure and see my other "Imagine a Day in..." swap:

• Germany Swap
• Japan Swap

By the way, the guidelines for signing up for the swap are very high. 4.85 rating or higher, with solid swapping experience. I make the call as I see it. No newbies.