先日校外学習で立川の防災館を訪れました。防災館では、消火体験やVRを使っての防災体験を行いました。リニューアルしたてで施設もきれいで、設備も最新のものがそろっていたので、とても楽しみながら防災について学ぶことができました。モンゴルの学生は、「国では雪による死亡事故が多いので、このような施設を作るべき。」という意見がありました。何事にも備えることや知識をつけることはとても大切ですよね！

【白滝遺跡群出土品】が、６月２７日に日本最古の国宝に指定されました！
北海道では２番目の国宝指定となります。
後期旧石器時代１万５千年～３万年前の人々が「黒曜石」を使って作った、槍などの武器や刃物など1,965点が国宝となっています。
国宝は、『遠軽町埋蔵文化財センター」で見ることができます。
古代ロマンが詰まった貴重な石器を、ぜひ遠軽町でご覧下さい。
（Photo by M.Sato）

I was in a bit of a hurry when I took this photo, but I wanted to take a picture of it because I thought it was interesting. Before coming to Japan, I hadn't actually seen braille blocks before (or maybe I had but never realized it or thought about what they were for), so learning about the yellow bumps at crosswalks and in stations, etc. I was pretty surprised and thought it was really cool. Recently, I was at Monzen-nakacho Station and saw this little station guide and thought it was cool because of the material it was made of and the sort of rustic look it had to it, but I was surprised to find out that it was actually a braille layout of the station and it looks like it even uses indenting to indicate where staircases, etc. are located. I was interested in learning more, so I looked up a Japanese braille handbook and learned how to read it. It's quite easy to understand when you can see it, but obviously it would take more time to memorize how the characters feel and where the dakuten, etc. are.