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I have been taking lessons at a dojo and I have found that in every lesson so far my sensei has been extra attentive to me.

I find that he makes a lot of jokes in my presence and would always laugh and look at me as if he is seeing if I found him funny.

I asked if I could buy another mask from him for karate and he ended up sneakily giving me one for free and told me to not tell anyone.

I do feel like certain things is of course because he is a great sensei. So he is very encouraging and understanding which is expected but he would make statements that sometimes feel like there may be an undertone or something else.

I would often find that he would look at me regularly while we wait for the other students to arrive. Where I would feel like someone is looking, I'd look and he is staring but as soon as i see him looking he looks away.

His tone of voice gets a lot softer when he speaks to me. He cracks a lot of jokes around me. He also seems like he is almost happy to see me.

Even though I find him cracking jokes and looking at me, he seems to be a bit fidgety when we are in close proximity when we aren't busy with a lesson. He seems to be a bit shy. Which I feel is contradictory.. I'm so confused.

I dont know if him joking a lot and staring could be the way he is flirting or if he is just being nice.

I would like to become his friend but I don't know how to shift those dynamics of student/sensei to friend/sensei.

We are about the same age, for added context.