“Me and my friends were playing on the playground, me, Eliza, Evelyn and Lauren then the, the, the, rumbling the tumbling the crashing the bashing it was all so scary but then it stopped.

We needed to go to the field so we did but on the way I started to cry. We saw big lumps in the path. We sat down but then we saw Ms. Williams our teacher so we went to her.

It was the worst day of my LIFE so far. The after shocks kept coming. It was extra scary because my parents were not with me.  My Mum came a while later and I felt much safer then.  She tried to text my Dad, she managed to and then he came. I felt much, much safer.   Then Lauren left.  Me, Eliza and Evelyn played in the mown grass and we made a seat out of the mown grass.  We played sumo wrestling with mown grass in our tops.  They set up the Year 7 & 8’s tents for camp for people who had houses that had collapsed and that are not stable for people.  Then we went home by the river way, there was a big crack in the road.  My Dad biked home.  When we got home it was quite messy.  My room was one of the undamaged rooms but it was ugly like that because my room is sometimes a bit messy.  We had a sandwich for dinner and we slept on mattresses in the lounge.  I went to the toilet quite a lot, we had to go to the toilet in the garden shed.  It was hard to sleep!!!  In the morning all day we dug out silt – it came up from underground.  We still had no power.”