はぁ。 sigh---

今日は学部のSILS主催のTOEICを受けて来ました。。タイトルから分かるように、撃沈↓↓アメリカから帰国してすぐ、数週間内に受けたのとは違い過ぎる手応え…。やっぱり５ヶ月のブランクは長かったのかなぁ。問題はリスニングでした。前回も「早い！」とは思ったものの、「先に問題読んでみよう」「今度は後に読んでみよう」「集中できるかもしれないから目をつぶって聞いてみよう」とか色々試す余裕があったのですが、今日は全く。聞き取れなくて、焦って焦って、そのまま次の問題まで聞いていなかった、なんてことが何回も。ちょうどテストの前に同じ大学に留学していた子に会って、前回の自分のスコアが彼より５点（おそらく１問分！）低いことが発覚！！だから、悔しい～絶対越してやる～、って挑んだのにぃ。。よーし、勉強してリベンジしてやるー！

I took a TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) today, and as you can tell from the title... it was terrible :< I did take one before, right after I came back from the States, but, oh, what had happened to me in the past 5 months? The hard ones are the listening part. Last time, I did feel they spoke too fast, but I guess I was calm enough to try many ways to answer, like "let's read questions first and listen," "let's listen first and then read and answer," or "let's try and close my eyes and listen, and see if I can concentrate better,"... But today, I was so surprised at how I couldn't comprehend that I missed two or three questions in a row, panicked, for a few times. Just before I took the test, I talked to a guy who had studied at the same college in the States and found out that he beat me by 5 points (which is probably one question) on the TOEIC score! So I said to myself, "I'm so jealous! I'll beat him this time!" and took the test, but it didn't turn out well at all!!! Ok, I'm gonna study, and revenge that TOEIC test!!!