Screaming. Terror. People dying. People crying. Running to safety. With the ground shaking I ran to the field with my friends. Teachers sprinting to help the juniors that were terrified. Parents were coming from all parts of the school to see their kids. My heart goes out to all the Christchurch earthquake victims that lost […]

We were playing cricket then the earthquake happened it felt like some one picked the school up and dropped it a lots of times. We went to the new building and watch a movie until my mum came.

It was lunch time and I was playing cricket when the quake hit. I looked up in horror to see the classroom shaking it was crazy, me and my friends we’re shocked I thought it was September all over again.

I was at home when this happened i was doing my homework then it struck it was pretty shaky. I dived under the table stayed there for a while because it went for a while it was really loud because I was near windows I was a bit worried about Michael because Boys high was […]

Imagine being in a small shed with sports items around you and then suddenly it was shaking and the noise sounded like the shed was going to fall down on me and my friends. I was so scared I thought my Mum was hurt and I did not know where Dad was. At school it […]

On Tuesday the 22/2/11 just before 1:00pm a big 6.3 earthquake hit. I was in the p.e shed with 2 other friends ,I was scared. When I went outside I saw heaps of parents coming to pick up their kids. When it started to rain the teachers told everyone to go into the auditorium. In […]

We were playing Cricket on a cloudy day on a Tuesday afternoon then a 6.3 earthquake hit LytTELton we all stood still as statues then all the teachers came out of the buildings we went out to the middle of the field then it started to rain on us we ran to our new building […]

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 […]