unbelievably unbelievable

Today, I discovered that Stephen Spielberg's classic E.T.-The Extra Terrestrial is an integral part of standard Japanese junior high school curriculum...naturally, it's important for the kids to learn about spaceships and aliens and stuff (not to mention Hollywood blockbuster movies), and I had the privilege of helping them understand the basic storyline, albeit without knowing what it was really about. E.T. was described as a cute little alien, who we all know in reality as a squat, dumpy sharpei-esque little squashy guy, but this sort of description is well beyond the current capabilities of the students. Besides, if it's not cute, it won't sell in Japan.
Of course, this did not stop them from reminding me that E.T. in fact stands for English Teacher, not extra terrestrial (the two are interchangeable here in the Land of the Rising Sun)

the students also doodle and write all kinds of random English all over the covers of their English notebooks...today I discovered entire choruses from such educational heroes as Dr. Dre and N.W.A., along with big block letters "Compton" (spelled incorrectly), and all sorts of other similar things...my students are badass man...

but the winner goes to a student who shall remain nameless who thought it quite prudent to write in big bold letters surrounded by yellow highliter, "Do you like KKK?"
He explained to me that it meant "ku kurucksu kuranu" (Ku Klux Klan), but couldn't elaborate on how he knew this or why he was apparently researching such things in his free time

never a dull moment...