何て偶然・・・ What a coincidence!

授業中、突然学校のスタッフが教室に駆け込んで来て「火事だ！早く外に出て！！」と叫んだ。
最初は避難訓練かと思ったが、廊下に出ると煙の匂いが充満していて、逃げる最中、受付の窓から黒い煙がモクモクと出ているのが見えた。
幸い一人の怪我人も出ず、皆無事に避難した。担任の先生は誰か見失っていないか確認。
その間に消防車・パトカーが数台到着。隣のビルのカフェからも煙が出ていた。

驚いたことにカフェの店員達は消防隊員が駆けつけるまで事態に気付かなかった。先生の話によると、店内に煙が立ち込めているのには気付いていたが、タバコのだと勘違いしたらしい。何て呑気な。

そして更にこの日はクラスメイトの一人の授業最終日だった。
スウェーデン出身の彼女の名前はオグナ…彼女の母国語で「炎」という意味らしい。
色んな意味で記憶に残る１日となった。


Jul 20th 2010
It happened when I was taking an English class this morning.
Suddenly a school staff member came into my classroom, shouted 'FIRE!! Go outside!!'
At first, I thought it was the evacuation training exercise but I soon found it wasn't. I smelled smoke as it filled up in the building and saw dark grey smoke rising from the backside of our building from the window near the reception.

Fortunately, nobody was injured. My teacher confirmed wheather anyone was misseing from his class. Then fire engines and police cars arrived there.
The smoke was raising from the entrance of the cafe which is next to our school too.

Surprisingly, the cafe's staff didn't realize what had happened until the firemen came into their shop, despite the fact the smoke was coming from the inside!!
According to my teacher, they had misunderstood, and thought the smoke from a cigarett.

Coincidentally, this was the last day of one of our classmates who came from Sweden. Her name was Ogna which means 'FIRE' in her country!!

合格 I passed it!

昨日、６月に受けたケンブリッジ検定（ＰＥＴ）の結果が出たのでＨＰで確認。
無事合格（１００点中８０点）！９月末までには合格証書が郵送される予定。

ケンブリッジ検定というと何だか大層な試験のように聞こえるが、レベルはピンキリ。今回のＰＥＴは下から２番目なので、あまり威張れたもんでもない。
とはいえ、この合格証書はＴＯＥＩＣ等と違って生涯有効。そして今回この検定を受けたことで、次回もう一つ上のＦＣＥを受ける為の自分の直すべき点もわかった（読み書きのスピードアップ、聞き取りと話す能力の向上等）。

まずは一安心。

Last night, I checked my result that I had took the Cambridge exam(PET) in June, on the website. There was written "PASS"(80 in 100points)!!
The certificate is going to be sent to my flat by the end of September.

The exam sounds somehow very hard but it has several levels for person's skill. And PET(Preliminary English Test) is second level from the bottom so that I shouldn't boast of my success very much.
Whereas, the certificate is valid for my whole lifetime(that's different from other exam such as TOEIC).
What the exam has shown me is my recent English level and what I must revise for FCE that the next level exam: to improve my speed for reading and writing, to improve my skill for listening and speaking, etc.

Anyway, I sighed with reliaf...