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!!