Everything starts anew in Japan on April First. The campus was packed today, with new students running around trying to figure things out and settle on the club(s) they’ll participate in during their college career, which is a big deal over here, and swarms of current club members vying for new recruits. We have similar events at the start of a new school year back in the States, of course; but the open spaces at most of our campuses are far more accommodating, so the experience is quite different. Silly me, I left the library at noon without considering the consequences and got stuck in a massive traffic jam. It took me a half hour to walk the 80 to 100 meters to the nearest campus exit, today—seriously. The first ten minutes were torture, because I barely made any progress at all. But I’m going back for more on Friday if I can, because I’d like to get a few pictures. Hopefully the students can maintain the same level of energy until then.
These are a couple photos I took many moons ago on my walk from Shinjuku to Nakano, somewhere halfway between the two. I have no idea what goes on at the Apple House (click on the photo), but I couldn’t walk past without taking a picture. The roses? Same story: lines, color, and contrast.
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