Do you belong in a club aside from the internet?
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| Well I'm pretty sure if you've seen a fair bit of anime, you would have come across a few series that focuses on after school clubs. Now while I was in high school(back mid 90's), the only clubs available were sports clubs or the famous "go-home or hang-out-with-friends" club, with myself joining the latter. It wasn't till I was in college that I had even heard of circles(a gathering of people who are into the same hobby as yours). So my question is, how much has changed to now? To those still going to high school, are there clubs running in your school similar to what you see in anime?(eg. like in K-ON or Haruhi) And how serious are your classmates about them? Do you belong in a club yourself? Same question goes for those who have graduated high school as well. |
| They never really had many after school clubs at my high school either besides sports. The only one I can think of really was the robotics teams. During the season we pretty much had to stay after school everyday and we ended up having to spend pretty much our entire spring break as well working on our robot as well. It was quite fun actually because besides our competition robot we also built various other ones such as a drag racing robot and a flamethrower robot. Other than that though we really didn't have anything like the clubs you see in anime though. |
| 私のホバークラフトは鰻でいっぱいです |
| I don't like clubs, they waste time from important matters. |
| There was really no clubs at my high school that would meet after school. When I was in high school they'd just meet at lunch and stuff. I think we had an outdoor club, that did rock climbing and stuff, but I can't really remember. Overall, it was boring stuff. I know we have clubs in my college, but I haven't really paid attention to them, nor do I see many groups meeting. The only group I've ever seen meet regularly and not just being "MM KAY GUYS, I WANT OUR CLUB TO BE ____" talks, is some weird board game club. It's basically all the freaks of my school, and a bunch of old pedo. looking men, that scream very loudly while playing roleplaying board games. I swear half of the people in that club aren't even students at the school. It's not really "cool" to be in clubs. |
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| There were no clubs in my high school |: but even if there had been any, I probably wouldn't have joined in anyway. |
| I joined the 'Tomodachi' club at my college, but I only went once. I would go, but then I would have to do group activities. |
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Wool said: I joined the 'Tomodachi' club at my college, but I only went once. I would go, but then I would have to do group activities. I was the same. I went to the Harry Potter club for awhile, but it's so tedious to stay after and wait for the club to start. Especially since I commute. Bleh. I wish we had the Japanese system where clubs are socially required basically. It's good to have that type of fellowship when you're young. |
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| My high schools didn't really have after school clubs aside from sports teams and drama clubs that only meet around the time of plays (you can't just join them either unless you're doing sets, you have to try out for them). Most of our clubs take place during school, in a period set aside known as "club period". |
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AvidRobot said: There was really no clubs at my high school that would meet after school. When I was in high school they'd just meet at lunch and stuff. I think we had an outdoor club, that did rock climbing and stuff, but I can't really remember. Overall, it was boring stuff. I know we have clubs in my college, but I haven't really paid attention to them, nor do I see many groups meeting. The only group I've ever seen meet regularly and not just being "MM KAY GUYS, I WANT OUR CLUB TO BE ____" talks, is some weird board game club. It's basically all the freaks of my school, and a bunch of old pedo. looking men, that scream very loudly while playing roleplaying board games. I swear half of the people in that club aren't even students at the school. It's not really "cool" to be in clubs. Actually, it's kindof scary because it's so easy to just want onto a college campus and step right into a club meeting. After all, the meeting times are plastered on posters everywhere. Eep. |
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| There's a bunch of clubs in the college I go to, but I haven't given any thought to joining one or visiting to see what it's like. Apparently there's an anime club but I don't know anything about it. Back in high school I didn't join any clubs. Here's my activity for high school: Clubs: 0 Extracurricular activities: 0 School events: 0 My little sister is in high school and she's the president of the martial arts club. But being a high school martial arts club in the US there's no dojo room or anything. They just take a bunch of mats and lie them on the floor and practice. |
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Akamitsu said: There's a bunch of clubs in the college I go to, but I haven't given any thought to joining one or visiting to see what it's like. Apparently there's an anime club but I don't know anything about it. Back in high school I didn't join any clubs. Here's my activity for high school: Clubs: 0 Extracurricular activities: 0 School events: 0 My little sister is in high school and she's the president of the martial arts club. But being a high school martial arts club in the US there's no dojo room or anything. They just take a bunch of mats and lie them on the floor and practice. I wasn't very involved in HS either. It became a problem when all I had to rely on for applying for colleges was my grades. Stupid extracirrics. |
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| There's a ton of clubs here including an anime club which I'm not apart of (because it's full of weird people and a ton of gothic people who are all depressing and stuff..) and the only time I was in a club was in middle school and that was Track-and-Field (they called it an intramural) I was actually the best person there *laughs secretly* and I even made it a goal to be on the track team in high school, but, that didn't happen because I'm a lazy SoB go-home club FTW :P |
| There was a bunch of clubs at my highschool but I didn't join any. There was an anime club which might have been cool, but I don't think anybody there watches the same stuff as I do. Not really into Bleach and such. Might join some clubs once I get into university. |
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| I think there might have been a chess club, or a games club, it wasn't official really, so my answer would be 'no we did not have clubs'. |
| Never really did clubs in high school, but once I get into college, I might look around for something to join. If there's an anime club, I'll totally check it out. |
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| lol i was technicaly a go home club person most of high school since like all the clubs i was in werent recognized clubs (Ultimate Frisbee, Halo, MtG cards) but i did end up joining a club about half way through... though i didnt do much for em' |
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| I did Track so I had practice after school. Other than that I wasn't a part of any clubs. I kind of think it would have been fun looking back now.... oh well. |
| Joined the anime club in my first year high school. Everybody was in their last year and it was disbanded after that. Joined the concert band in my school starting from second to last year. We had 2 meetings per week and did some parades/concert/contest like around 5-10 times a year. Last year of high school, me and a couple of guys made the math club so it'd look good on scholarship applications. It wasn't after school, mostly at lunch times because we all had better things to do after school ended. And we didn't do any math except playing cards. Good times. Wanted to join the tennis team on my last year, but I can't stand doubles, and my serves suck like hell. I'm in the anime club in university now, but we barely do anything. Think I need more relevant clubs to boost my medical school chances. I guess I can opt for a position in the club, like volunteer coordinator or something, maybe. Actually, a guy I knew let me into the astronomy club, but I was utterly disappointed when they only had one of those huge observatory satellites in an obscure location in the physics building, instead of say, a bunch of smaller telescopes in which people can share and watch the stars on a roof somewhere. LIKE IN ANIME. |
| I've joined (and promptly quit) quite a few clubs during high school. Environmental Action Club, Book Club, FFA ('cause I took Floriculture that year), and I even managed to get myself kicked out of a community-service club (just to put on my college apps, to boot!). But overall, most of the clubs at my school are fairly lame. The anime club got shut down due to "inappropriate viewing material" (well, it's anime, duh!), and we had a Yu-Gi-Oh club that lasted a year. But yeah. This year, it's go-home-and-watch-anime club! |
| In the high school that i'm in right now, we've got a bunch of clubs, but none of them interested me, after looking around a bit i saw an anime club and thought i might as well join. The meetings were great, stayed on topic while putting in some funny jokes. We actually went to an anime con and it was really fun :D |
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| Hmmm... Our school doesnt really have afterschool clubs. There were a few lunch time ones, though they aren't really counted as clubs, various sport clubs - I cant play sports at all, music related clubs - I cant really play a musical instrument, religious clubs, the book club, the gardening club and some other random clubs. So I'm in no clubs and dont exactly plan to be in one. |
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| im not a part of any clubs because i think most of them at my school are stupid and none of them are stuff im interested in =/ |
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| I'm part of Japanese Conversation Club in my college... only once a week,,, |
| Was on the freshman soccer team and ran track in sophomore year. Outside of those, I've never really been in any kind of club. |
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| well I'm in cross country and track and quite active in both but other than that, maybe a few bs community service clubs or something and that's pretty much it. |
| so by looking at everyone's replies, I'm guessing Japan's the only country who have weird yet active clubs running with people actually going to them.....the weirdest I've heard so far is from my mother-in-law who actually went to school in Japan back in the 60's as she had told me the even had a hanayome club which was run as bridal training for young women |
| I change clubs every year just to see what's going on. but I avoid any kind of sports related club. because I suck. art club science club home economics and crafts club book lover's club chess club social arts club math club yuri club you can say I'm a prolific club joiner or just bored. |
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| In my Uni theres the Asian Club. Its literally an Asian only group where most of the Asians in the university gather for parties when its CNY or other Asian celebrations. |
| skippin a year of football to join the mock trial. ima nerd -_- |
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Lightyear8684 said: No one can beat "go - home" club |
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| One reason I hate my school, there are no clubs. Well except for the various sports teams you can join, fund raising committees, chess club and music orchestras. I really wished my school had such a thing as an Anime club, or any culture based club, but unfortunately... Here's hoping the uni I plan to go to has clubs. One reason I want to go to a Japanese school. |
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| We have subjext of choise (Biology, Geography, Theater, etc.) We don't have clubs :/ |
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| I used to belong to the art club, which I say was very fun for a few months then I just got bored. I was also in the anime club in my school but this was at the time that anime didn't really appeal to me so I left that on the 1st day. I was also on a couple of sport teams too. |
| I never joined any clubs when I was in high school. In fact, I can't remember if I joined any clubs and they're usually held during class hours. I don't remember what it's called but it's a like break time after 1st period is over and there would be 40 minutes until 2nd period on Tuesdays through Fridays. |
| I'm in the German club and the World Cultures Club. P: |
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| I joined the Jazz Army at the beginning of the last semester. Including me, the club has about 12 or so members. Obviously, we rehearse jazz pieces and later play them during school concerts/festivals as the "pre-music". I don't think everyone in the club takes it that seriously, though. |
| Clubs r shit irl coz u go home after school to watch anime and observe animated characters enjoy their clubs. No sarcasm there btw |
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AnimeKraze said: Clubs r shit irl coz u go home after school to watch anime and observe animated characters enjoy their clubs. No sarcasm there btw well considering how enthusiastic you see some characters are about clubs in anime(could be other media as well, haven't checked), I thought times might have changed for a lot of high school kids these days. Without sounding like an old grandpa, back in my day, unless you had legs like a horse and arms like a gorilla, the only clubs were sports. If we had some of the clubs seen in anime at our school, I know I would have definitely stayed back just to join one. Not only does it help kids socialize with other kids in a good way(I ended up socializing with the hang-out-with-friends-after-school-club' and took up smoking), but it also helps bring out a kids talents such as art or music. |
| IMO it's not the club and what the club does which determines whether ppl wanna join or enjoy it's activities but rather the personalities of the members within the club, why do some ppl rather observe animated characters enjoy their clubs than to go out and join a club on their own? Because anime characters, mannerisms, speech/voice, appearance, colours sets the mood and since you are observing you don't feel obligated to put on your mask like u do due to social protocols/expectations etc. In addition anime characters are generally nice so you can join a "club" which does absolutely nothing and just hang out with these animated characters & it would still be a awsome "club". |
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| The only club I participated in was for community service, lol. But it was actually kind of fun since we'd hang out with a lot of people (this was in my sophomore year of high school, I think). |
| I was a president for a club...that died twice. I always lost interest and I ask myself, "Why the hell I'm I in school for 2 more hours?" I joined various clubs but none of them fancied my taste. |
| I graduated high school a few years ago but I actually have very fond memories of club. During my freshman year, these kids made an after school anime club in one of the teacher's class rooms. As the years went on it varied from teacher to teacher, but it was still the same club. We watched animes and it changed depending on a vote on if people want something else or if they really wanted to keep watching the same thing. Also for holidays (or week of a certain holiday) we'd play a themed anime or Japanese movie. For example,we watched Noroi on Halloween one year and then a few days after we watched Cat Soup. For the anime group that I had hung out with during high school,it was definitely a haven and everyone was pretty serious about it (until more and more freshmen came and by the time I was a senior the club was almost going to ruin unfortunately). During my Junior year of high school I actually was the vice president and it was a good year! All in all,high school I was in anime club. College now? My college has zero clubs worth going to at the moment. The one I plan to transfer has a few and I've yet to look into them so can't say about that! |
| I'm a member of my school's anime club and occasionally go to the Philosophy Club's film discussions. |
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| I'm a member of my uni's martial arts club, and I like it a lot. The trainings are tough and we're actually doing something. |
| God sure is cruel, sometimes he makes you live. Gather some leaves of Japanese. |
| School in Australia doesn't really have clubs.. but I guess I could call what I'm in a school club. I'm part of the Leo's Club. Basically, any weekend I'm free, or the days I'm free on school holidays, I'll head out in a pink shirt, holding a tin, collecting donations from my local area of different things such as natural disasters, poverty, charity etc. I'm only new though, but I'm quite proud of myself. I used to be a slacker and did shit all, pretty much. Though free time does make it easier to socialize, chill with friends, this feels a lot more fulfilling. Even if this didn't contribute to a great resume, I'd still be signing up. |
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