We also had an official welcome party at the University for all the 34 new exchange students with all the tutors and teachers. I have to say the organizing students put a lot of effort into this event. They set up a game for everybody to get to know each other.
After the official welcome party there was a second welcome party (without teachers, haha). It took place in a student dorm. And it was the first time that I went to a university party, where everybody took their shoes off. Yeah, Japanese people take this very seriously. Now I feel even worse that on my first night in Japan I forgot to take my shoes off!
The party was nice because we got to know many other exchange students. There is one Japanese thing about the cell phones, which really strikes me. Everybody exchanges their number and email via infrared. (Not like in Germany, where you have to type the name and the number manually! Uh, that’s so not cool, haha…) So there everywhere you look, people are moving their cell phones together, like playing a love scene with puppets.
Exchanging phone numbers Japanese style
Japanese style group picture
Me and co-traveller Marion with our tutors
German style picture ^_^
In the end though, I do not know if I would call it a party… There was no music, only 100 ml beer per person, and it ended at 22.00. So after that we moved into the city and found a Karaoke bar! ^_^ You have to pay 10 Euros for one hour for each person in order to rent a Karaoke room with free drinks (and free ice cream!). When considering the short time, you really have to order hard liquor so that everybody is quickly drunk enough to participate… There you also see the cultural selection – the Koreans were the best at singing. And the Germans stayed away from the microphone as far as possible.
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