This week has been one of the craziest ever here at TASIS. Thursday night I went down to the pub with some friends. Our quiet evening ended when a faculty member came back to tell us there was smoke everywhere outside. As we ran down the street we truly thought the main building (housing a lot of boys) was on fire. Turns out it was a hut, but nonethelesss it was close enough to evacuate the area, bring about 100 firemen, inspectors, brigades, newsmen and I don't know what else, down to the school. As it turns out here in the UK, fire extinguishers are filled with water and firemen don't really get called to fires very often so it took them about 15 minutes to get there. With the drought here, the fire caught on
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