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

Shake, rattle and roll – not again! Earthquake! I was on the deck in the middle of a Beyblade battle with Sam, Mason and James when the disastrous earthquake happened. People started screaming. Some doors were jammed so people couldn’t get out. I lost my balance and was bumped off the deck. I could see […]

I was outside playing with my preschool friends and I felt the wobbles under my feet. It was so wobbly that I fell on the ground. Lots of the other kids were crying but I was brave I didn’t cry. I don’t like wobbles!

I was watching TV in my sisters room and the wobbles started to come. I started to cry because it was so scary. Daddy ran to the room and held me until the wobbles stopped. The TV I was watching fell down and all the shelves with toys on it fell to the ground too. […]

Rattle, roll, boom, bang! I can sense danger in the air… E A R T H Q U A K E ! ! ! I was just out on the field playing soccer with my friend Ben when it happened. Yikes! My head nearly hit the tree. I was just about to score a good […]

Well I was outside by Kate in front of Kate’s lunch area 4 min’s later I felt a shake I got in to the turtle position, i felt very scared and i was shaking i called out for help, and Mr Lynch came he took me to the library teacher then that teacher took me […]

I was eating my lunch and talking to my friends when the school started shake I was terrified and got down and covered my head. Once it had finished some of my friends were crying we made a big circle to make sure everyone was o.k. When we got home we saw dvd’s on the […]