Print Club

To quote my friend David (right), "No Mom, this isn't an advertisement for some Chinese Telecommunications Company!" This is "print club". For those of you who haven't encountered print club in Japan, here is my definition:

"Print club a guilty little pleasure that we ALTs have to while away the hours (especially those of us in the Ehime countryside who have very few alternate options for entertainment)...its an activity that everyone secretly enjoys but some are too cool to admit it." I happen to love it!

Basically, you go into a large photo booth with as many friends as you can cajole. Each booth has a different theme and the really cool ones have props. As you strike a pose the camera shoots away, forever immortalizing you in the corniest ambulations imaginable. The more acrobatic and...er...um...creative you can be, the better! Because the booth we choose had some monkey bars in the back, I managed to coax David into impersonating a running jumping side kick with me.


As if that weren't good enough, once the photos are completed you can go to a computer screen located at the side of your booth. There you can decorate your photos, change the background, add words/images/icons etc. I swear, this is really addictive. Some people have enormous albums full of print club photos. Its a real pheomenon here.