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W A Y S Y O U K N O W Y O U
W E N T T O
R I T S U M E I K A N
A S I A P A C I F I C U N I V E R S I T Y
*Photo Credit to Youhei Murayama.
This was made from the international student's perspective, but I'm sure everyone can relate to it.
1. Your grades during the spring semester are
complete crap. Damn multicultural weeks.
2. You’ve gotten good at guessing where people
come from just by looking at them. Or at least you think so.
3. You have 10 million group pages on Facebook
that you’ll never visit again.
4. You know how to swear in at least 3 other
languages.
5. You run into people
you know EVERYWHERE, whether you like it or not.
6. You use the words “otsukare”, “ganbatte”,
“baito”, “gomen”, “mendokusai”, “daijoubu”, and add “ne” at the end of your
English sentences without even thinking about it.
7. Misspellings and grammar mess-ups are so
common, you’ve stopped double checking your essays.
8. You cry at the thought of having to buy a
new bus pass every year.
9. You’ve found every possible way to get your
attendance checked. You will have those points, one way or another…
10. This is your idea of a college lecture hall.
11. You’ve been asked the question “Where are
you from?” at least 1091823765875032091239867417213 times.
12. You know the rule: “You must put one
umbrella into the cycle BEFORE you can steal another one on a rainy day.”
13. You’ve almost completely forgotten that
PANGAEA is actually pronounced [pan-jee-uh], not [pan-geh-ah] (in English)
14. If you were on a game show and the final task
was to sing the “H-I-Hirose song”, you'd win a million dollars in an instant.
15. You have a stereotypical (and most likely politically insensitive, but hilariously funny) joke about each one of your friends' countries.
Well, sometimes they think it's funny too.
Well, sometimes they think it's funny too.
16. You go to war twice a year… Course
Registration War, that is.
17. Everyone has been screwed over by the
Academic Office and/or Student Office at least once.
18. Gossip spreads unbelievably fast.
19. AP House is a brothel. Don’t lie. You were
thinking it.
20. Most people here just think too highly of themselves.
21. You’ve been here for God-Knows-How-Long,
yet you still don’t know which one is A building and which one is B building.
22. Every time you meet someone who’s visited
Beppu, you ask them “ W H Y ????? “
23. On your flight back to Beppu, at least
half of your suitcase is filled with food.
24. You fell in love with this chocolate bar:
25. You’re so tired of the clubs here.
26. HORIZONTAL Rain???
27. Although you’re stuck in a town with
nothing more than fried chicken, natural hot springs, and old people, you’ve
made some of the best friends you could ever imagine, and somehow find ways to
enjoy this place.
