I was putting my lunch away at school when the ground starting shaking. I made a turtle on the ground. I felt really scared. The earthquake bell rang and we ran outside on the big court. I went to see if Lucy was alright. I looked after her lots. Mrs Greenwood said to go to […]

I was at school when the earthquake hit. I was in the classroom and all of us went under our tables until the ground stoped moving. During the earthquake the power went of. After the earthquake the principal came round the classrooms to check if we were ok. The teacher let us have our cellphones […]

12.51pm playing on the back field with my friend’s the earth shook my friend’s and ran for the middle of the field Mr Bar told us to get down then it stopped we saw people ran for our class mates to see if they are ok we get in class lines then the aftershock “EVERY […]

I was in the bathroom at school with  some of my friends when we had the earthquake. It was scary. We run out of the bathroom and outside to where we eat our lunch. All our teachers were out there to make sure we were all ok. After the ground stopped moving we went back […]

I was at My Aunties house with My mum, aunty and cousin when the earthquake started. We were sitting at the table having a talk because it was my cousin Valerie’s birthday, and the ground started to shake. I jumped up to mummy and she took me under the doorway with Valerie and Aunty. When […]

I was at school in my classroom.  I was doing my Maths work so nicely at my desk.  All of a sudden I felt the wobbles rock my classroom and I ducked under my desk. I began to cry because I was so frightened of the wobbles.  Other children were playing outside and when they […]

When the earthquake happened I was in the playground on the wobbly bridge. I was lucky I got off. When I got off I did the Turtle shape. I was really scared. By the time we got to the multi-purpose room I was in tears. I was lucky my mum came to take me home. That night […]

Last Tuesday an earthquake happened. We were playing in the hallway then we felt the house shaking side to side. Abbey and I ran down to Abbey’s room and hid under thebed. Thehn Mum shouted, “Where are you?” We said, “We are here.” We ran past the smashing wine bottles then we ran under the […]

Last Tuesday Lucy (my sister) and I were in my room when the earthquake started. I said to Lucy, “Get under my bed, ” and we both went under. When we were under my bed it felt like the whole house lifted up and shook. I heard things smashing and falling down. Lucy and I […]

I went on the field and I felt something shaking and it was an earthquake. Then I went into a Turtle, Mrs Fisher said “go down” and she put her hands on her head, she was scared. Then we went to the safest place on the field and my brother Trent came to me and […]

I was holding on to the monkey bars and the earthquake came right behind me, then the ground started shaking and then all the teachers shouted and then I don’t know how many people cried. Some people cried and some people didn’t, but I didn’t. And then I started crying a wee bit because Mum […]

On Tuesday 22nd of February there was a 6.3 earthquake.  I was on the monkeybars and then it happened.  I fell off and got winded and if you don’t know what winded means it means that you can’t breath in.  Then I ran like a turkey with no bones then I went into the shape […]

When the 2011 earthquake struck I was at school, reading a book in the library corner and pretty much the first millisecond I was under the table. The shaking was pretty scary. After that the police took my school onto the street and then my whole school went to the Botanic Gardens, not for a […]

At the earthquake at lunchtime I was sitting on the toilet. It wasn’t scary. I went downstairs to my brother’s homebase. I went under a table. I walked through town to the start of the Botanics with my brother Crispin. Most of the brick buildings were fallen down. The end