We had been at Fukui for several days but the kids we were staying with had mostly been at school the entire time so we didn’t get to hang out with the as much as we should have. My mom had the idea to take them somewhere to play but…
Daily life at the house was crazy with the kids running around. We woke up to the smallest kid called Taisuke saying “good morning”. Taisuke was 4 so he mostly spoke Japanese so he mostly pointed and said “we did it” because our dad made a video with AI that…
We had to say goodbye to Fukui and the family we had lived with for two weeks. The two Europeans we had been with left early in the morning while we left in the afternoon. We spent our final day digging holes and playing in mud. When it was time…
Today started earlier than usual because we had a big day planned—visiting a Japanese castle and a real ninja temple. Since the castle opened at 9:00 a.m. and attracts a lot of visitors every day, we decided to go there first. The ninja temple didn’t open until 11:00, so it…
Today we are taking a car to Fukui, A place in japan. We are doing a workaway which means we help take care of the kids and stuff around the house but get to stay there for free. When we got there it had scooters and bikes to ride around…
Today we are supposed to help make the half destroyed village good so people can live there again. At first there was no one there but then we went up a pathway and we found a tiny temple / shrine. There was lots of people there and we saw SNOW!…
We sadly had to leave Tokyo for the time being but luckily, we got to take the Shinkansen. The Shinkansen is a Bullet train that travels all over Japan and goes at nearly 200 kilometres an hour. So in the 3 hours we were on the train we travelled 600…
After leaving Phong Nha, we travelled down south to Da Nang where we stayed a night before hopping on an airplane to Hong Kong. A short flight was followed by a tedious five hour wait which we spent in a crowded lounge. The flight to Tokyo was short but by…
