TOEIC
I had a hard time on this Sunday. This was the third time I took a TOEIC Test.
The score of the second time = the score of the first time + 100 ( good job!)
But...
The score of the third time = the score of the second time - 50 (too bad!).
The excuses were as follows.
1. I was still suffering from jet lag. I felt sleepy during the examination. As you know, the sleepiness of jet lag is different from it from physical fatigue. I felt not only sleepy but a little worse.
2. I was starving. I knew I would become sleepy if I had a lunch. So I didn't eat anything before the test. During the listening test, I felt a highly charged atmosphere. I thought If my stomach growls, I might be killed. It was really hard to hold my breath (stomach).
3. I expected my ears were better trained than usual because I just came back from Netherlands. The result was ...there are questions about short talks at the end of the listening test. They are always difficult for me. I can't understand some contents of short talks at all. I feel sad.
In my estimation, by jet lag -40, by starving -30, by Netherlands +20 = -50 !
By the way, I experienced culture shock on this Sunday.
When I arrived at the nearest station to the university where the test is to be held, in front of the checking of tickets, a person stood and showed us the way to the university.
1 minutes later, I found another woman stood at the entrance of the station. She showed us the way too. And 1 minutes later, I found another man on the street. And 1 minutes later, I found a man at the point where the road branches into two on the campus. I found 4 people from the station to the university. The station name is "Tamagawagakuen- mae". Tamagawagakuen is university's name and "mae" means "nearby"　Naturally, there were waves of people in direction of the univ. And,moreover,we had an admission tickets for the examination with the map.
If only I can stand in front of the station, we can see direction of the campus.
Are we regarded as fools?
In my opinion, if a person cannot arrive at the place where he/she will take a test, the problem is not he/she cannot be in time for the test. The problem is the person doesn't even have the basic ability as a human. Probably, what the person should study is not English conversation.
In Netherlands, they kept the information to a minimum in town, airport, station, and hotel. I had to get the information I need by myself. But It was really comfortable I need not to feel explanations and announcement were annoying.
I noticed we have gotten used to the overprotective surroundings.
So I experienced culture shock here in Japan.
Every morning, an escalator of Hiratuka station said to me,
"Hold your luggage tightly and never drop it."
"Never run up or run down because it is really dangerous for you."
"Please be standing inside the yellow line." (outside of the yellow line is the air!)
"you will get to the exit in a moment. Be careful."
If an accident happen at an escalator like the revolving door on Roppongi hills, will all escalators in Japan be stopped? I imagine when we have no choice but to use stairs.
"Hold handrail tightly. (you had better think you are walking along a precipitous cliff.)"
"Alternately lift your right and left feet. (if you make mistake, you fall into the abyss.)"
Product Liability Law will protect us. This law is in operation in Europe, the U.S. too.
But probably their ways of thinking are different from Japanese.
We are overprotected children. Don't you think?
The score of the second time = the score of the first time + 100 ( good job!)
But...
The score of the third time = the score of the second time - 50 (too bad!).
The excuses were as follows.
1. I was still suffering from jet lag. I felt sleepy during the examination. As you know, the sleepiness of jet lag is different from it from physical fatigue. I felt not only sleepy but a little worse.
2. I was starving. I knew I would become sleepy if I had a lunch. So I didn't eat anything before the test. During the listening test, I felt a highly charged atmosphere. I thought If my stomach growls, I might be killed. It was really hard to hold my breath (stomach).
3. I expected my ears were better trained than usual because I just came back from Netherlands. The result was ...there are questions about short talks at the end of the listening test. They are always difficult for me. I can't understand some contents of short talks at all. I feel sad.
In my estimation, by jet lag -40, by starving -30, by Netherlands +20 = -50 !
By the way, I experienced culture shock on this Sunday.
When I arrived at the nearest station to the university where the test is to be held, in front of the checking of tickets, a person stood and showed us the way to the university.
1 minutes later, I found another woman stood at the entrance of the station. She showed us the way too. And 1 minutes later, I found another man on the street. And 1 minutes later, I found a man at the point where the road branches into two on the campus. I found 4 people from the station to the university. The station name is "Tamagawagakuen- mae". Tamagawagakuen is university's name and "mae" means "nearby"　Naturally, there were waves of people in direction of the univ. And,moreover,we had an admission tickets for the examination with the map.
If only I can stand in front of the station, we can see direction of the campus.
Are we regarded as fools?
In my opinion, if a person cannot arrive at the place where he/she will take a test, the problem is not he/she cannot be in time for the test. The problem is the person doesn't even have the basic ability as a human. Probably, what the person should study is not English conversation.
In Netherlands, they kept the information to a minimum in town, airport, station, and hotel. I had to get the information I need by myself. But It was really comfortable I need not to feel explanations and announcement were annoying.
I noticed we have gotten used to the overprotective surroundings.
So I experienced culture shock here in Japan.
Every morning, an escalator of Hiratuka station said to me,
"Hold your luggage tightly and never drop it."
"Never run up or run down because it is really dangerous for you."
"Please be standing inside the yellow line." (outside of the yellow line is the air!)
"you will get to the exit in a moment. Be careful."
If an accident happen at an escalator like the revolving door on Roppongi hills, will all escalators in Japan be stopped? I imagine when we have no choice but to use stairs.
"Hold handrail tightly. (you had better think you are walking along a precipitous cliff.)"
"Alternately lift your right and left feet. (if you make mistake, you fall into the abyss.)"
Product Liability Law will protect us. This law is in operation in Europe, the U.S. too.
But probably their ways of thinking are different from Japanese.
We are overprotected children. Don't you think?
posted by sacchan at 11:13 PM
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