12/06/2002, Wednesday, 2:00pm

Finally, a long-waited rest in the exam time. Now with Geog. gone, all of us could have a long weekend for rest and preparation for the Jap. exam on next Tuesday. Tomorrow is only English listening, which we could do nothing to prepare actually.

This morning, the sky was very dark. I've planned to bring the umbrella to school. But for some reason, Kuu-san got my umbrella out of the house before I could get it. She left a note which she claimed that she had left her umbrella in the college. What about me? We don't have any spare umbrella. So I could only hope that no rain until I get to school.

And I don't have much luck. The sky did started to rain before I could get a shelter. I ran across the street to find somewhere and wait. But fortunately, I found somebody who could help me.

Just when I got to a sheltered bus stop, Shizuno-sensei just got down from the bus. She offered to walk together since she got an umbrella. We talked a bit on the way. And she went to the staff room after we got to the school while I ran to the computer work station.

For once, Umi-san and Kuyami-san were studying instead of messing with the computer for once. since the first subject is English comp., Misao-san felt strange about their behavior. Hikaru-san was studying for her Physics while all of us were discussing about which part will appear more in the exam paper. We forgot about the time and almost late for it.

The questions were not very difficult. What we have to do was to choose one from the 3 questions, and write a passage with no less than 280 words. After the exam, we discussed about the 3 questions.

"I wrote about the third question. That time machine one." Kuyami-san said. "And I almost didn't got enough time to write. I've written at least 700 words I think."

No wonder Kuyami-san could get the out-standing writers award in the English section. I wrote about the question 3 too. It's like this:

One day, you found a machine with the following instruction:

Press the RED button to choose the date and time to travel to the past.
Press the BLUE button to choose the date and time to travel to the future.
Only ONE person could use the machine each time.
This could only be used for FOUR times.

Describe what happened next.

But I didn't have much to write, maybe about 320 words. But seven hundred? We only have 1 hour and 10 minutes to write. Even Umi-san, who also wrote question 3, had only written about 400 words.

Anyway, we went back to the Geog afterwards. While Hikaru-san went for Physics. We would have a 1 1/2 hour paper. But Physics was 30 minutes more. I don't know it's good or not. But I could only barely finished the questions since we have to write and draw a lot (diagrams carried extra mark). We decided to wait for Hikaru-san and have lunch together. Also to discuss about our field trip after the vocation start.