Induction to Ritsumeikan University

Welcoming speeches and the people who would talk to us about safety.

During our welcome ceremony that included speeches in Japanese and English, there was a group of old ladies that "taught" us how to carry our bags and purses properly while walking in town to avoid getting robbed. Even though Japan is one of the safest countries in the world they were adamant in telling us to hold on to our bags as tightly as possible. Also, if you have a bag in the basket of your bike you should cover it with a net so that a thief can't do a drive(ride)-by and steal things out of the basket. They taught us these things while doing sketches. It was pretty funny to see.

The Old Lady Gang with a bike skit

Yesterday a friend of mine left his wallet in his basket before going into the store. A person outside walked by and saw this wallet and then went into the store where we had parked outside of trying to find the owner. We got it back 10 minutes later, without even realising that it had been left outside. Japanese people are very very nice!

The Police department's judo sensei came and showed us some basic moves in case we were confronted with an evil doer. ^_^

During the welcome ceremony we got food. Free food :) Everyone had a great time. I tried some squid that was tastier than I had expected. Overall, I think we are 99 exchange students for this semester! Lots of 外人 gaijin (foreigners)