When the quake hit I was walking back from seeing if we had to do wet day monitoring. I was standing on the decking in front of our classes with 3 other girls. It was really scary because one of the girls screamed & we went underneath the railing to the path.  We had the classrooms on one side & the hall on the other side of us. Once it had stopped, we went to the middle syndicate & assembled out on the field. We got into our classes & an aftershock hit, ten minutes after the first one and everyone screamed. When we were on the field there was liquefaction everywhere & our island on which we had to stand got smaller & smaller. One of my friends left as soon as her mum came. I had to go home with my friends mum because my mum was over in Tai Tapu & had to come back home to get her car. The house we are in suffered no damage at all. We have been baking & giving food to the Rolleston community who took the food the east side of town.  Also we helped shovel up liquefaction at Halswell school [my school] last Wednesday. We go back to school tomorrow (Wednesday 9th March) and I am hoping that there will be no more big earthquake/aftershocks.