studying abroad in Japan is inseparable from university associations. The associations in Japanese schools are a very important part of school life. The first thing students experience when they enter the campus is not the rules and regulations of the school or the course exams, but the enrichment and happiness of school life.
Recruiting new students by clubs in the university
On the first day of school registration, all major clubs in the school will set up booths to attract people and guests. For the former freshmen, it is better to kill one thousand by mistake than to miss one.
Surprisingly, they seem to know how to tell who the freshmen are at a glance. For freshmen, they are treated like heads of state, serving tea and pouring water, while other students turn a blind eye. The types of clubs are also various. Besides the normal mainstream literary clubs, rock clubs, baseball clubs and basketball clubs, there are also crosstalk clubs, ninja clubs, Japanese hero clubs and even party and dinner clubs.
In front of the booth of Ninja Club, students dressed up as ninjas wrapped in pieces of cloth, cut at each other and threw small paper darts at each other in the ancient music played by small speakers. Japanese hero clubs are even more popular, and we can see that many negative Superman and salted egg Superman are lined up in a row, constantly drawing circles with their hands left and right to put on classic pose. As for the party dining club, we put out a lot of photos of everyone's dinner before, and then listed the expected dinner plan this year, and several members simulated the dinner party scene ...
Busy club activities
Japanese college students are quite busy, and in addition to getting credits for school every day, they also participate in club activities with great enthusiasm. This kind of club activities probably began in primary school (the activities at that time were planting potatoes and pounding rice cakes), and it was the peak in high school. In China, it's probably called labor practice. In fact, in my opinion, club activities are a disguised insistence on dreams.
Japanese students have decided their life plans very early. Most of them know that they will enter the company and become civil servants in the future, but they can't be athletes, ninjas or gourmets. However, they will still try their best to pursue one thing they like to do most in order not to regret it.
No one will regard such a thing as a waste of time, and club activities are also valued when taking office. If people don't even have hobbies and dreams, how can they love life and work hard? Therefore, in Japan, community activities are almost the key business projects in the student period with the same status as academic studies. From the school to the parents, they are fully supportive and belong to the serious business category. Especially in some sports club activities, the sparks generated by the collision of dreams and passions can shine for a lifetime.
I wonder if you have heard of Koshien? It is the eternal palace in the hearts of all high school baseball players. Being able to play in Koshien once in one's life is eternal pride, and talking about it all his life is even more glorious than playing in the Olympic Games. Because the Olympic athletes are basically professional, and Koshien is a place where simple dreams bloom. It is really tearful to see the high school students who are extremely happy because of winning and tearful because of losing in the Koshien Stadium digging the sacred soil and putting it into the bags that have been prepared for a long time! (By the way, there is no Chinese provincial and national team system in Japan. Athletes are all members of school sports clubs, so they have to rely on social sponsorship when they leave school.)
Besides being a place to pursue their dreams, school clubs are also an important place for students to establish interpersonal relationships. And the relationship established here can stand the test of time. I attended a party on the anniversary of the establishment of the football department of Kansai University. On that day, many old men came. After asking, they found out that they were old members decades ago. When they met the predecessors and successors of the previous clubs, they were flushed with drink and cried their eyes out, and their feelings were deep. Sometimes the sense of belonging of the community is even stronger than that of the school. It seems that there are * * * dreams, that is, friends in dreams, and we should cherish them all the more.
Of course, when it comes to the interpersonal relationship building function of clubs, many people just want to have fun and meet some friends with the same interests, such as the dining club mentioned above or the housekeeping club. It really can't be said that people's dream is to eat or do housework, which is too unrequited.