Diary of a JET #8: What are they up to?

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I'm going to hell for this one...

So I'm riding my bike home from the station after one of the last trains home late at night, and my students are right there wandering around the streets in some kind of daze...

At first I thought little of it. 


A couple of nights later, I was drinking at a friend's place and we decided to go to the combini to refuel. The combini happened to be right in between the school I work at and the train station. Guess what I run into...

Do you know how hard it is to buy beer when your student is staring at you from the snack isle, not saying 'hello', and pondering whether it really is possible that Australians eat food, and drink stuff? 


Later on, I'm jogging late at night...

Students:

Me:

I've started calling them walkers...

I hope I am conveying how weird these little run-ins are for me. Why are there just random students of mine walking around my neighbourhood in the middle of the night? I live next door to the school I teach at so clearly they are either in transit towards or away from school. I get that. But why are they still at school at 11pm at night? There is no way my parents would let me out that late on a school night when I was in high school! 


Some times I find myself wondering what is really going on inside the seemingly innocent minds of my students. Then I consider the items in my immediate vicinity for their effectiveness as weapons in a zombie apocalypse situation. Like, what would happen if my students just suddenly turned... Oh, what it must be like to venture inside the psyche of a 17-year-old Japanese high school student...

I'm probably going to hell right now because I just implied my students are zombie-like and put it on the Internet. Honestly though, I LOVE my students. They are amazing. But they are also everywhere and at night time, that can be just plain scary...

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