Koukou

My 3nensei graduate in two weeks, and many don’t even know what high school they are going to yet! I can’t imagine not knowing what high school I would attend a month away from the new school year starting. That is so crazy to my procrastinate-y American mind, let alone an organized Japanese mind! How do they not go crazy not knowing such things? More power to ‘em, I suppose.

I also can’t believe how far some of my students are going for school. One of my favorite students told me today that she is going to a school in Takasaki. Dude, I can barely be bothered to go there for shopping on a Saturday because it takes so long to get there! How the hell can she go there and back every single day?! It seriously takes like an hour and a half to get there from here because of the train transfer (unless she is motivated and wants to bike a half hour to Iwajuku every day, which would equally suck). Man, these kids are crazy.