Entrance ceremony in Japan, Ritsumeikan APU

1 April,

   It seems like a very normal day if I heard someone talked about the first of April but not in Japan. Now I officially stepping out of my comfort zone to start a new adventure in Japan. The calmness of the countryside in which every cycle went so smoothly in Japanese style, very polite, very kind, and very humble. The 1st of April always comes with Sakura or Cherry blossom 🌸, it’s a symbol of commencement.

   I’m standing in the Beppu park with the blooming Sakura was around me, I felt so weird but also excited at the same time. Can you imagine 3 girls in Thai traditional clothes were taking a picture with a stranger Japanese inKimono. Next to them under the others, Sakura three is also a group of people wearing their own traditional clothes, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Nepali, and other 40 people from various counties around the World. The new students entrancing to APU on these years look totally different from the local, even without their traditional clothes they already look foreigner but in these 4 years, they will live along with this community. 500s people from various backgrounds traveling for various distance to Beppu city, a very small town in Japan’s countryside, they all heading to APU. 

   APU, a multicultural society which bases on Japan. We are all the representatives of our own culture and infused Japanese culture into our blood at the same time.