Bang! I was up a tree when the earthquake happened.My friend Jess in Room 12 helped me to get up the tree, but once I got my feet on it, it started to shake. One of my friends reminded me that it was my birthday and she told me that the earthquake was saying Happy […]

First me , cole and josiah were waiting near our classmates waiting to go to technology classes.i was eating pistachios and then we felt a foreshock.it was like a big thud. then another thud.after that there was a massive earthquake.i was choking on a pistachio nut and thinking,this is the eight.its an eight point 9! […]

On a rolly, quaky Tuesday at twelve o’clock lunchtime when I was still eating my lunch … the city was rolling and quaking. I ran onto the field like everyone else. But someone was having a good in Australia, my cousin Max. I felt really, really safe when mum came to pick me up.

I was really scared in the Earthquake. I was at school eating lunch outside by the playground and i was just about to put my lunch box away but then the ground started shaking. When the ground was shaking all we could see was dust on the cliffs. I started running onto the field because […]

I was at school and showing the duty teacher my lunch box when arrrgh an aftershock happenend.  Then everybody ran straight onto the field.  My babysitter lived across the road and she came before my mum.  When my mum showed up I felt much better.  Then we went up on a hill.  My neighbours children […]

I was in the library at lunchtime, and I was trading stickers first I thought that I was alright, but then I heard a big crash boom bang and then there was a little shake and then that little shake turned into a big shake. Then I ran under the closest table and got under […]

When the earthquake went I was frightened. I did not like it. I was frightened because my baby brother was at preschool. I miss him because he is at Wellington now. I miss him

I was at school when the earthquake happened. I felt sad but my brother was safe but he started to cry. Then, 10 minutes after my Dad picked us up.

I was siting at my desk when the 6.3 happened at first I thought I would be a 4 or 5 but at the end I  knew It was higher than a 5.  When I got home I listened to the radio and found out it was a 6.3.

Me and  Serenity   were  playing  a    game   and   then    the   earthquake  hit  and     then  I   did  tommy turtle   and  then   everyone    ran   away   from     me  and   I   ran  to  the  teacher  and  I  ran  to  Mrs  Douglas   and  a     big kid came and hugged me and Serenity and then we started to cry and then […]

I just arrived into class when bang it hit i scrambled under my desk and waited for it to stop.Then we all ran outside then our princeabal told us to go back inside so we did everyone was crying and we sat on our mat and talked and then boom another one hit and we […]

I was enjoying my lunch when the earthquake struck. We covered our heads and curled up like a ball. Lots of the children were scared and started crying. The earthquake was a sideways one.  The earthquake in September was a diagonal one.  We all went to the big field and sat down in our class […]

When the Earthquake hit I was at Sumner School my friends was crying I was too. I saw rocks falling and dust. My teachers come out with the roll to see if we was here we all were. My dad came down to pick me up, some parents didn’t come so them kids went to […]

When the earthquake happened I was inside the classroom. Then we went running outside and huddled round Mr Jack. Mrs Woolford came running to the classroom and we had to run to the field. Then Millie’s mum came to hug us. We waited a bit then my dad came to pick me up. My dad […]

It was lunchtime we ate our lunch and went off to play. Suddenly ahhh the earthquake started. We ran onto the field. All the Mums and Dads started arriving. Lots of people were crying. We left with Jane Ellas Mum. The house was broken. We went to Ellas house to play. Inside there was milk […]

It was lunch time and I was playing on the play ground with my friend Alisha when the big earthquake happened. It was so scary I thought my mum wasn’t coming, but in an emergency like the earthquake, Mum or Dad would come to help me. I felt so scared I cried a little when I saw my […]

There was an earthquake and I was watching TV. The TV fell down and then Mummy came and picked me up. We standed in the doorway. Lots of things fell down and broke. I felt scared. We standed in the playroom doorway while the shaking stopped. I thought that it was a big aftershock but […]