☆☆a queen's backyard☆☆ (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kotorichan) wrote,@ 2009-04-29 01:38:00 |
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Ahhh it has been so long since I wrote my last entry... yeah seriously more than one month now... wow! I am really sorry, that I did not write earlier... I have been just way too busy lately.. that I even do not have the time to rely to e-mails. First of all, sorry Aqua!! I really forgot to reply to your mail... I am so slow at typing German or English on the mobile so I wanted to wait later until I have more time to reply to you... but guess what... I forgot.. ^^;;;
But yeah since you asked what and I have been doing since I arrived at Tokyo... I will just write a little bit about it right now.
To describe my time here at Waseda in one sentence it would be:
........It's just too awesome to be true!!!............
I just cannot find any words to describe it... it has been more than 4 weeks since I arrved to Tokyo and almost 4 weeks since I started my exchange semester here at Waseda. I feel like if I have been living here my life long... I remember when I was thinking about which university I wanted to go after High School, that Waseda would be such a great one... but this was so impossible that it seemed to be a dream. Today this dream has been fulfilled... and I noticed that the dream about Waseda has been confirmed. I had all right to dream about Waseda. Because now I finally got to know what it means to have a "student way of life!"
Before I start to talk great about Waseda, I just wanted everyone know that Waseda is not a place to expand your own knowledge horrizon... not with that I have seen so far. If you want to study seriously you should instead choose Keio or Tokyo Daigaku. Waseda is one of the top universities in Japan that is true... but compare to the university I now (at least to WHU) I just can say that the levels vary so much from each other. For me the only thing I learn the most at Waseda is Japanese. But hey... I am here to have fun... to experience the real student life... and in that point Waseda has surpassed all of my expectations!
Due to space and time limitation I cannot start to talk about everyday since I came to Waseda, therefore I will just summarize everything.
The best thing I find great about Waseda are CIRCLES! On the day of your University entrance ceremony (1st, April) and the whole week with this, all the circles of Waseda are gather together on the main campus and try to convince freshmen to join their circles. It is a thing that you experience or seen so far. I am an exchange student, therefore, not need to attend any university entrance ceremony... but I still wore my suit and went there to see how an entrance ceremony was like. After it was done, all the freshmen came out of the university and step into the main campus... and there sophmore, juniors, and seniors form a big corridor out of people and start to give out pamphlets from their circles... it is not only 1 or 2, and also not 9-10, but 100 - 200 pages that you get on that day!!! If you start to spread out your arms to receive some of them, you have already done a mistake. Because once you open up your arms, the next people you passe by will on and on try to put their pamphlets on top of the others... so it begins to built a pile which grows higher and higher... and it does not stop...
When I tried to find my way though this human corridor, I was releaved that some of the guys suddently handed me a paper bag so I could put all those into it... as I was also wearing a suit, I was also mistaken to be a freshmen, so there was no escape from them. There I lost the Korean friend with who I came to the ceremony... and found the first circle, a Musical circle called Seiren Musical Project. On that afternoon, I watched a show they had last year on DVD called "Me and My Girl" and was so fascinated by their performance that I could not believe that the most of actors and actresses are actual younger than me... after that we went to Japanese Yakiniku restaurant and all the sempais treated the freshmen to dinner and all you can drink juices and alcohol. There I got to know that this what they do is called "Shin Kan Kai", in Japanese 新観会. As Waseda is absolutely famous for its number of circles... also called the circle heaven - サークル天国. Waseda has hundreds of circles: standard sport circles
tennis, volleyball, foodball, soccer down to specialities like diving, skiing or chearleading. Dancing circles for example are all together more than 20 or 30 as there all kinds of dancing circles. Artist circles, like Manga study, drama, piano, ensemble, choir, Jazz, acapella, traditional music instruments... study circles like english debating, spanish, law study circles, international exchange... Funny and spaciality circles like media study circles (announcer, making MV), Japanese kabuki, tea ceremony, or fan circles... almost everything you can imagine!!!!
every April, all the circles organizes events as for examples drink parties (飲み会 or コンパ), watching sakura (花見), 2 days travel (合宿) or getting know training sessions (練習会). Everything is either free or very cheap for freshmen so therefore many freshmen uses this chance to get free food and drink during their first month. Others are just going around circles to find the right one they want to join.
I did that too. Therefore during the last 4 weeks, there were almost no day that I came home earlier than 23 pm... Everyday I had different events going on, most of them where some training scessions plus drinking parties afterwards.
For me I have found 3-4 interessting circles I have been going to their events recently, two musical circles, one is this Seiren Musical project, other one is called Omnibus, also a Musical circle. The 3rd one is a dancing circle and the fourth one a Magic circle. Last one was at first a circle I went bc I did not have anything to do on that day so I went to their drinking party. But it was so fun, that I even now went to couple of training sessions... ^^;; The thing about circles is that you can get to know so many cool people, make a lot of friends and have tons and tons of fun in a very short time. The members welcome you warmly as you might be a possible future member of this circle. You cannot only make friends with the grades over you you can also make many freshmen friends. In the dorm I have found two best friends who I spent most of my time together, with them I go to Omnibus, and the dancing circle. I have make friends with many old graders and freshmen as well...
My phone number list has grown from around 30 people... until 150! And did I already told you guys that there are so many good looking guys here at Waseda? The same goes for beautiful girls.. many of the could be already models. I do not know where they are coming from, but they are just there... I know that is impossible to find anyone within the next 3 months.. but just hanging out with them, having fun is already enough for me.
So.. I better stop here.. next time I will upload pictures and you can see yourself what kind of beautiful faces are around me every single day... I do not know if its a good thing or not.. hehe but see them yourself...
But yeah since you asked what and I have been doing since I arrived at Tokyo... I will just write a little bit about it right now.
To describe my time here at Waseda in one sentence it would be:
........It's just too awesome to be true!!!............
I just cannot find any words to describe it... it has been more than 4 weeks since I arrved to Tokyo and almost 4 weeks since I started my exchange semester here at Waseda. I feel like if I have been living here my life long... I remember when I was thinking about which university I wanted to go after High School, that Waseda would be such a great one... but this was so impossible that it seemed to be a dream. Today this dream has been fulfilled... and I noticed that the dream about Waseda has been confirmed. I had all right to dream about Waseda. Because now I finally got to know what it means to have a "student way of life!"
Before I start to talk great about Waseda, I just wanted everyone know that Waseda is not a place to expand your own knowledge horrizon... not with that I have seen so far. If you want to study seriously you should instead choose Keio or Tokyo Daigaku. Waseda is one of the top universities in Japan that is true... but compare to the university I now (at least to WHU) I just can say that the levels vary so much from each other. For me the only thing I learn the most at Waseda is Japanese. But hey... I am here to have fun... to experience the real student life... and in that point Waseda has surpassed all of my expectations!
Due to space and time limitation I cannot start to talk about everyday since I came to Waseda, therefore I will just summarize everything.
The best thing I find great about Waseda are CIRCLES! On the day of your University entrance ceremony (1st, April) and the whole week with this, all the circles of Waseda are gather together on the main campus and try to convince freshmen to join their circles. It is a thing that you experience or seen so far. I am an exchange student, therefore, not need to attend any university entrance ceremony... but I still wore my suit and went there to see how an entrance ceremony was like. After it was done, all the freshmen came out of the university and step into the main campus... and there sophmore, juniors, and seniors form a big corridor out of people and start to give out pamphlets from their circles... it is not only 1 or 2, and also not 9-10, but 100 - 200 pages that you get on that day!!! If you start to spread out your arms to receive some of them, you have already done a mistake. Because once you open up your arms, the next people you passe by will on and on try to put their pamphlets on top of the others... so it begins to built a pile which grows higher and higher... and it does not stop...
When I tried to find my way though this human corridor, I was releaved that some of the guys suddently handed me a paper bag so I could put all those into it... as I was also wearing a suit, I was also mistaken to be a freshmen, so there was no escape from them. There I lost the Korean friend with who I came to the ceremony... and found the first circle, a Musical circle called Seiren Musical Project. On that afternoon, I watched a show they had last year on DVD called "Me and My Girl" and was so fascinated by their performance that I could not believe that the most of actors and actresses are actual younger than me... after that we went to Japanese Yakiniku restaurant and all the sempais treated the freshmen to dinner and all you can drink juices and alcohol. There I got to know that this what they do is called "Shin Kan Kai", in Japanese 新観会. As Waseda is absolutely famous for its number of circles... also called the circle heaven - サークル天国. Waseda has hundreds of circles: standard sport circles
tennis, volleyball, foodball, soccer down to specialities like diving, skiing or chearleading. Dancing circles for example are all together more than 20 or 30 as there all kinds of dancing circles. Artist circles, like Manga study, drama, piano, ensemble, choir, Jazz, acapella, traditional music instruments... study circles like english debating, spanish, law study circles, international exchange... Funny and spaciality circles like media study circles (announcer, making MV), Japanese kabuki, tea ceremony, or fan circles... almost everything you can imagine!!!!
every April, all the circles organizes events as for examples drink parties (飲み会 or コンパ), watching sakura (花見), 2 days travel (合宿) or getting know training sessions (練習会). Everything is either free or very cheap for freshmen so therefore many freshmen uses this chance to get free food and drink during their first month. Others are just going around circles to find the right one they want to join.
I did that too. Therefore during the last 4 weeks, there were almost no day that I came home earlier than 23 pm... Everyday I had different events going on, most of them where some training scessions plus drinking parties afterwards.
For me I have found 3-4 interessting circles I have been going to their events recently, two musical circles, one is this Seiren Musical project, other one is called Omnibus, also a Musical circle. The 3rd one is a dancing circle and the fourth one a Magic circle. Last one was at first a circle I went bc I did not have anything to do on that day so I went to their drinking party. But it was so fun, that I even now went to couple of training sessions... ^^;; The thing about circles is that you can get to know so many cool people, make a lot of friends and have tons and tons of fun in a very short time. The members welcome you warmly as you might be a possible future member of this circle. You cannot only make friends with the grades over you you can also make many freshmen friends. In the dorm I have found two best friends who I spent most of my time together, with them I go to Omnibus, and the dancing circle. I have make friends with many old graders and freshmen as well...
My phone number list has grown from around 30 people... until 150! And did I already told you guys that there are so many good looking guys here at Waseda? The same goes for beautiful girls.. many of the could be already models. I do not know where they are coming from, but they are just there... I know that is impossible to find anyone within the next 3 months.. but just hanging out with them, having fun is already enough for me.
So.. I better stop here.. next time I will upload pictures and you can see yourself what kind of beautiful faces are around me every single day... I do not know if its a good thing or not.. hehe but see them yourself...
