Junior High School Endings, New Beginnings


今日は、久しぶりに全編英語のBlogをお届けします。

Alex先生が綴ってくれた、いつもより少し情緒的で、美しい表現が詰まった文章です。

テスト期間の緊張感と、その先に待つ新しい季節の気配——。

中学校の試験は明日まで。

少し難易度は高いかもしれませんが、今の校舎に流れる特別な空気を、ぜひ英語のまま感じてみてください。

 

 

The scratch of the pen against paper echoes through the halls like a closing curtain, marking the quiet end of a three-year odyssey.

For the graduating classes, these tests are less an assessment and more a bridge—a final, paper-thin threshold between the familiar hum of lockers and the vast, mist-covered horizon of high school.

Each question answered is a footprint left behind, a silent goodbye to the hallways that saw them grow from wide-eyed children into the steady-handed young adults now handing in their futures with a bittersweet sigh.

 

 

With exams continuing through tomorrow, when the ink dries for the elders, a different electricity hums in the veins of the younger students.

For them, this season of testing is a shedding of skin, a ritual that clears the path toward the summit of the school’s hierarchy.

As they watch the seniors depart, the weight of leadership begins to settle on their shoulders like an invisible mantle.

They are no longer the observers or the followers; they are the rising tide, looking toward the coming year with the fierce, hungry realization that the halls now belong to them, and the throne of seniority sits waiting for their arrival.