Swap #5

This swap wasn't initiated by me ... I just out of the blue received an email from Japan. :-) Chiaki wanted to swap postcards with me, and when I looked at her profile and saw where she lived, I was definitely interested. Hiroshima! So I asked her if she could send me a card showing the Genbaku Domu, and she said that of course she could. :-)

On her list of interests, Chiaki has listed the aurora borealis ... something I know that a lot of Japanese are really into. :-) I offered her a card with the northern lights, because of course they are very readily available around here.

I sent this card off on November 30th ... it took about a week and a half to arrive, but when it did, Chiaki totally loved it. :-)

I received this card on December 1st. Wonderful. :-)

Received card #9

My ninth card came from Henry, an American living in Japan. He had managed to fit in a lot of writing on the card ... because in his opinion he and I have a lot in common and he wanted to share some of that with me. So much so in fact that a second card arrived a few days later. :-) And he's right, we do have a lot of things in common. But more on that later - I hope Henry will be mentioned again on this blog. :-)

The card showed a beautiful scene from Henry's home town Tokyo ... a shot from the Imperial Palace. Very Japanese. :-)

The card was sent on October 13th, and it traveled 8,430 kilometers to reach me on October 19th. Of all my received cards thus far, this had traveled the longest distance.