When Abbey and I heard that our friends from the U.S. Ali and Rohma would be coming to Tokyo over winter vacation, we knew that we were going to meet up with them.
But there was one problem: Tokyo is pretty far away from where we live in Gifu. And since the bullet train is pretty expensive, we had to go by bus.
That meant only one thing — night bus to Tokyo!
As you may expect, it’s hard to find good pizza in Japan. And even if you do find good pizza, chances are it’s going to cost you. The average price of a single large delivery pizza from places nearby us ranges from $20 to $40!
When Abbey and I first came to Japan years ago in Okinawa, as pizzaficionados we were heartbroken.
…until we learned about a magical place called Shakey’s!
Sometimes a photo haiku-caption context can get bloody. The competition can get fierce, leaving only two competitors, sweaty and panting, competing for the final trophy.
That’s a real photo haiku-caption death match!
Summer vacation is almost over. Just a few more days before it’s back to school.
That means it’s time to pet some cats and buy some pants!
You know what’s even more fun than coming up with a haiku to caption a photo with?
Pitting a bunch of people against each other to see who can come up with the best haiku caption for a photo!
If you’ve ever wanted a tour of a Japanese home that gets into the juicy details of all five senses, then now is your chance!
A few days ago Abbey and I went back to Gifu City to meet a friend: Noda-san. He’s a Japanese artist who has been Facebook friends with Abbey for over two years. He loves to travel, but had never been to Gifu, so now was his chance!
Plus we got some sweet memes out of it too.
This week two important things happened: one of the biggest yearly festivals in our town in Japan… and a trip to the Gifu City immigration office to stay legal aliens.
What were they like? What did we eat? And most importantly, how hot was it? Let’s find out with some photos!
Coming up with a haiku to caption a photo with can be a lot of fun.
But pitting a bunch of people against each other to see who can come up with the best haiku caption for a photo is even more fun!
Over the past couple streams, whenever we browsed the Writing Prompts Subreddit, lots of people in chat would suggest even better ideas for prompts than the ones we were choosing from.
So for our most recent stream (with special guest Abbey), we decided to go ahead and create our own writing prompt, and then write it.
To help with that, we came up with a formula for creating a good prompt: normal idea plus twist equals prompt. For example, robots take over the world (normal idea) plus ducks (the twist) equal the prompt: “A.I. robots have taken over the world but have formed a pact with one species: ducks.”
This was a good exercise not only to come up with a prompt, but also for any story you want to write. We’ve all read sci-fi adventures, time travel mishaps, and romance drama novels before, so having a good twist to hook the reader can really make your story stand out.
After coming up with a bunch of fun prompts, we narrowed it down to these three:
