Note
thunderstorm 雷を伴ったあらし;

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I was asleep at 3 a.m. Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and my apartment building shook. I thought it was an earthquake at first. Then I realized that it was a thunderstorm. The thunder went on for another 15 minutes. Each time I saw a flash of lightning, I started to count. If you count to 3, the lightning is about one kilometer away. I counted to 10. That means that the lightning was about 3 kilometers away. Sometimes I saw a flash and heard the thunder right away. The lightning was just above me! Finally, the thunder stopped, and it started to rain heavily. I went back to sleep. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes
sardine イワシ;
predator 捕食者;
by accident 偶然に
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Every year a lot of sardines swim along the coast of South Africa. They are followed by predators: penguins, dolphins, sharks and whales. These predators swim around the sardines so that sardines make a ball in the water. Then they attack and eat the sardines. Last month, a diver wanted to get pictures of the sardines close up, so he jumped from his boat into the middle of the sardine ball. All of a sudden, it got dark around him. A whale had come up from below and swallowed him by accident. Whales cannot eat people, so it let him go. He was safe, but he was very surprised! (by Douglas Jarrell)
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