Why don’t you join our “TEA “?

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WHO WE ARE

If you're looking for opportunities to make Japanese friends

or have exciting memories in Japan, "TEA" is for YOU!

TEA is a club where Japanese students and international students can communicate with each other through various activities.

TEA has been an institution at Ochanomizu University for more than 14 years. However, it changed to a club held by students just LAST YEAR! Therefore In this way, we can offer both international and Japanese students more fun and affordable meetings.

WHAT WE DO

Having a lunch together once a week

You can meet new Japanese friends, and enjoy conversation with during your lunch. Any subjects topic is OK! You can ask us about Japanese culture, daily life, and whatever you want to talk with. You can also introduce your own country to us!

As you make friends you will probably begin to get together in pairs or smaller groups outside of the club meetings as well.

Join Participating in the school festival.

Thanks to the international students, We served "Shrinkage"

(In Japanese, "Chizimi"), a traditional dishes of Korean dish, last year at the school university festival, Thanks to all foreign students,

All of it was sold out!

Go sightseeing around TOKYO together.

Outside of the weekly meetings, it is a good we plan to have about one excursion in Tokyo a month. We Go school festivals of other universities.

It is like the one at TOKYO University, one of the most famous universities in Japan! We have a picnics.

Go to karaoke. Have a dinner. We went to a buff. Whatever you decide to want to do! This will help to create stronger bonds within the group.

ABOUT JAPANESE SKILL

We can organize your club gatherings in many ways. Sometimes the clubs will be full of members that only want to talk in Japanese or English. However, our club gatherings are often very casual and require a little planning. If you're coming to Japan for your studying Japanese, you can talk only in Japanese! But if you are worried that you are not so good at speaking it, NO PROBLEM. There are many students who study English, French, Korean and so on! Actually, we sometimes separate half our meeting time, 30 minutes for Japanese, and the rest of it for English.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

When you come to the university, there is a welcome party is held by the University and our club after the international students’ orientation. You can start by signing up at the party. Make sure you to write down your Facebook account so that we can invite you to the "TEA" SNS Facebook group of "TEA". You can contact us about the time and place of the club meetings. Even If if you will not be able to come to the welcome party, you can contact us anytime whenever you want to join.

HOW THE MEMBERS FEEL

The leader

I really enjoyed the international exchange in this club. "TEA" is quite a small, so I'm sure you can connect with Japanese friends quickly and can have a great relationship with them. We are very looking forward to meeting you at this university!

The iInternational students from Taiwan.

It is a great opportunity to meet new people. We could make not only Japanese friends but also international students from other countries!

I went to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies' school festivals, and it was a lot of fun! We had various food from foreign countries! If possible, I also want to make traditional Japanese food with "TEA" members.

We want to help you make many Japanese friends, go and see around Tokyo, and whatever you want to do!

"TEA" is always with you!

We are really looking forward to meeting all of you! Thank you very much.

Writer: Rio Fujii

Photo Credit: Kano Ueda