2002/06
06/25
taking over and over...
Now I'm not the chairman of Newspaper committee at least in name, hah...
... yeah, but it is true that I'm a persistent man. To tell the truth, I have become a member of the editorial staff of --er-- the graduation collection of our compositions.
Yes, I really mean it ... probably.
06/23
the last game; 10 dishes of potate salad
Wretch...
Our activities of Kendo club are put an end, for good or evil.
Harry Potter, uh...
I don't know even now what I thought at that time, but I bought a book `Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone' the day before yesterday. One I bought is original version of the work, which is of course written in English.
I've roughly read out about one-third of the book of just a little over 300 pages(it's paperback). The chapter I'm reading now is the famous one `The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters,' and the part Hermione Granger, who is(are?) ふぃる's latest favorite, just appears for the first time.
Last year, I saw the movie of it and later read the Japanese version of it roughly. I thought it is a well formed story but nothing better or worse than it, and now I still think it is. It is, though, certainly interesting at least to some extent, so let me make it the reason of this reading that I want to be used to rapid reading. In fact, for the time being I've never looked up any word in a dictionary during this reading. For I've completely ignored all of the words, phrases, and sentences I can't make out :D.
06/15
carefree lifetime
This several days, among my classmates some projects to keep diary in English have started one after another. I've made sure of the beginning of TAKU's and 司's. TAKU's is performed in the way that 7 members write in it in turn.
I don't know why these projects start now, but I think of them as good movements. I'm sure that these projects largely increase their English skills.
However, it is not that I have no worries about them, for such projects can make them tired of writing in diary. In fact, it is quite troublesome to keep diary in English, especially at first. If they don't enjoy doing it, it is no use keeping it.
Incidentally,
英語スキル上げ交換日記
Engish version
do they have another version of "英語スキル上げ交換日記" not written in English, I wonder ;-)
06/14
セピア色の映画の中で
ここ最近の蒸し暑さには耐えかねていたから、地上への階段を登りきるのと同時に感じた心地よいそよ風に、僕は思わず目を細めた。それからゆっくりと目を開けたときの驚きといったら。――空が。空がセピア色だ。
目にするもの全てが、あまりにもいつも通りで、それでいて、あまりにも何かがおかしかった。耳にするもの全てが、あまりにもいつも通りで。それから、何か不思議な感じがあった。一つ確かなことには、不自然なほどにいつも通りな風景が、はっきりと広がっていたんだ。セピア色で。
それはたとえば、――映画。それも、日常の記録映画。前を歩く人は、いつも通りに歩いていた。車だって、いつも通りに黒い煙を吐いてけだるそうに走っていた。子供の遊ぶ声も、遠くから耳に届いた。でもやっぱり、ふと気付くと何かが不自然。何か歩き方が変だ。車の走り方、何かぎこちない。あの子供の声、ひょっとしたら作り物じゃないか。
音が遠ざかっていった。前を歩く人も、だんだんと遠くに感じるようになった。もう、周りに車なんて走っていなかった。広がるのはただセピア色の世界、耳に入るのはささやかなノイズ。ああ、やっぱり映画だったんだ。
家の前につく頃には、もう映画も終わり。身を包むのは、セピア色じゃない、本当にいつも通りな日常。違和感を感じることは無いかと一通り考えをめぐらせてから、夕餉の待つ家の中へ。
ただいま。