I am in an earthquake. I like my house because it is safe. I feel sad at times and mum makes me feel better. I like my pets and brother and sister.

Emergency service rescuers crowding the town, Another shake rolling by, Rampaging devastation travels throughout the city. Teachers, parents adults assuring children safe and sound, Help is near for all family and friends, Quick continous jolts beneath our feet, Under ground movements that make us afraid, Actions of courage and extreme bravery seen, Kia kaha Canterbury…… Everyone […]

On the day of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake I was at home eating my lunch because I had an earache  and my mum had to take the day off work.’ When it struck, I was sitting on the chair eating a cup of noodles…… BAAAAAMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! The earthquake shook like I had never seen it before […]

Hi my name is Cherie and I go to Hornby Primary School. I am a student in Room 3 with Mr Scott. Mr Scott is a nice teacher, and his wife had a baby just after the earthquake.  I was at school when it happened. We were playing outside, and were just about to go into our classroom.  Some of my friends were […]

When the Earthquake struck on Tuesday 22nd February 2011 my class was having lunch inside.. I was leaning over a bin peeling my mandarin.. Some of my class had finished & had gone outside to the play area.. It felt like a huge monster shaking our school.. Everyone in the classroom scrambled under desks.. the […]

When the earthquake happened I didn’t know why everyone was running and screaming because I couldn’t feel it at first. Then I felt it. I knew it was an earthquake and when I ran to my classroom there was liquifaction all around it. It was flooding. I was a bit scared. Then we went onto […]

In the earthquake I was crying because I wanted Mummy.  Afterwards we were waiting in another classroom and the teacher let us watch a movie, there were two more earthquakes while we were in the classroom.

The ground rattles, shakes, bangs You’re suddenly scared. Things falling, crashing, breaking. You can’t stand up. Diving for your desk, hoping, praying nothings happened. You’re looking around, you’re shaking, horrified and scared You can’t speak Everythings broken, apart from you and your family. This time we are the lucky ones, it wasn’t like that last […]

Before the earthquake happened I put my lunch box away and went to wait for my friends, and then I felt the ground moving and rumbling, then I made a turtle.  The teachers came running out and came to check on the kids.  The earthquake bell rang and we went down to the court.  I […]

“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 […]

On Tuesday 22nd of February 2011, the 6.3 earthquake hit.  I was very scared it was a very frightening experience at school. The teachers were comforting the school students and that made me feel safe and not scared anymore.  I am so glad my friends, teachers and family are all safe.

We were just finishing up our homeschooling when the earthquake started. Some of the shelves fell down and most of the books were scattered around. I was quite shocked that this was happening again. The quake made me shake with terror and my sisters were quite frightened too. Most of our plates broke, our TV fell […]

I was in the toilet when the earthquake happened. I started screaming and ran out of the bathroom to the doorway. I was scared. When I looked outside bricks had fallen, fences had squashed our vege garden, chimneys had fallen down across the street.

I was upstairs in my room. It was shaking really fast. I could see everything fall down in my room and I held onto my bed. I felt sad and I had tears down my eyes. My mum and brother were under the archway downstairs, my sister was in the toilet!

When the earthquake shook I was just putting my lunch away. two techers yelled turtle. There were a couple other kids and we got sent to the senior field. When I was at the senior field the principal Mrs Torry then said, “grab a partner and go to the joinur field.“ When we got there […]

Emergency service rescuers crowding the town, Another shake rolling by, Rampaging devastation travels throuoght the city, Teachers, parents adults assuring children safe and sound, Help is near for all family and freinds, Quick continous jolts beneath our feet, Under ground movements that make us afraid, Actions of courrage and extreme bravery seen, Kia kaha Canterbury…… […]

When the earthquake hit on Tuesday my home did not break. I was a litttle bit scared, but it was fun too. It was lunch time at school and I was under the really big tree playing tag with Tessa, Anna and Abby. I felt the ground shaking, my legs wobbled and I thought the […]