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 […]

Shake, Shake, Shake I was outside when the 6.3 aftershock hit. My friends and I were sitting down and eating our lunches and at about 12:51 there was a small shake, well I thought it was small except it suddenly got bigger and bigger so I started running to the field. I got told to […]

One Tuesday I went outside and rode my bike, while we were setting up lots of jumps the earthquake hit. It was a 6.3. Mum was inside, we were outside. Mum told us to stay outside until it finished because the piano was rocking hard. We went inside and sat in the doorway. Then we […]

One normal Tuesday we went outside to play on our bikes and we lost our balance – I wonder why? A BIG EARTHQUAKE HIT CHRISTCHURCH!!! I was in the garage at first, a crack was beginning – it was freaky. I ran out of the garage to my sisters who were playing outside. Mum was […]

In the Earthquake I wasn’t in room 7 because it was reading rotation. I was in the library. I was sitting at my desk doing my work when the earthquake started. I was looking for my pen under the table. The teacher said stay under your desk and hold on! All the other children were […]

I was with Mrs D and my friends Jade and Holly. We ran to the field when the earthquake happened. We sat and we waited for our Mums. I looked after Cadence because she was sad. My friends Will and Lucy stayed for the week. We had no water or power. We went to Grandad […]

I was at Playcentre eating lunch at the kai table.  A big earthquake shook and I could hear things rattling and see things moving around. We jumped under the table and made a turtle.  Ben, Alex, Grace, Azaria, Xander, JJ and some other kids got under the table too. I wanted my mum.  The power […]