I was playing near my classroom when It happened I grabbed hold of the blue ramp poles tightly as the earthquake took place.  I was very dizzy and scared. My teacher Mrs Wilson was in my class room so I felt a little safe. Everyone in my class started crying but not me and my […]

I had had my lunch and was playing on the field with my friends, I was up a tree. When the earth started moving. I quickly jumped down from the tree and landed on the ground. There was liquidfaction just infont of me. It suddenly stopped and I got up and run over to the […]

Tuesday the 22 February I was in the School Hall it was the middle of Kapahaka when a 6.3 happened just before 1:00pm. There was only one teacher in their with us as there were about 60 students in there at the same time. We all had to get into a turtle position. Most of the little kids were […]

On Tuesday there was an earthquake and I was in my class room when the  earthquake happened and our Teacher Mrs Lee was not in our class room 6 because it was lunchtime but we had wet day monitors.  I felt scared.  We got under the desks.  Then Mrs Lee came into room 6.The end.

I was at the library at school, there was a big 2D cardboard rocket it fell on my head. Everyone beat me to the tables, desk and doorway. Since the bookshelves are on wheels they were going up and down the library. I finally got to the other side of the library and only got […]

On tuesday i was playing hunt at lunchtime. And i just ran down this lane and then i herd somthing coming like a bumpy loud thing coming right at the lane i was in and so i ran as fast as i could but i could of not make it to Dougie,Oliver and all my […]

I was sleeping and when the earthquake came, Mummy jumped onto my bed and  woke me up, Mummy was wearing no clothes because she was just about to get into the bath.  Everything fell down when I was asleep. I was feeling brave when the earthquake came.

Ok so here’s the first thing I was just eating my sandwich and started shaking and that made me cry. Mrs P said duck down children. Then I ducked down, I was feeling scared because I thought Mary my 9 week old sister had died. I was thrown off my bench I was sitting on. […]

I sit on the field with one shoe on and one shoe off crying for my family my friends comfort me as after shocks rock our school, silt and cracks surrounding us.

Just after lunch on Tuesday, I walked out of class and down the path to the library and pushed open the door. The library was quiet and nobody was there, not even the librarian, “She must be in the other room”, I thought. I walked over to the chapter book section and started to browse […]

I am just looking for another good book when suddenly the library starts rocking side to side. All you hear is screaming and teachers trying to calm others down. It felt like a 8.0 but it wasn’t. I was under the doorway with at least 6 others. We went back to class and there was […]

We were at the pool upstairs, waiting for our turn to hop into the pool the teacher finally told us to go down stairs and get changed. We were jumping down the stairs when I heard a rumbling and felt shaking. I turned around to tell the boys in my class to stop shaking the […]

Last Tuesday during lunch time all of the girls in my class were inside getting changed for sport after lunch we were in the class room that was about 10 feet away from the catholic basilica then the class room was shaking like crazy it was 10 times more scarier than the 7.1. We were […]

I was at school like most children,i was standing outside with my friends then suddenly the trees started movin side to side litterally!i looked over at my friends and hear everyone scream “What do we do?!What do we do?!” over and over again there were no teachers and we were standing out side our class […]

For the big 7.1, my family was safely in Australia but with the 6.3 shake I was at Woodend for peer mediator camp. We were sitting down eating lunch when it struck. The quake felt like table tilt on wii fit. It just didn’t stop!! When we finally thought it was over, it wasn’t. The […]

On Tuesday it was our fish & chip day at school just as I was finishing my lunch a 6.3 earthquake struck. It was the second in 1 year.

My name is Sarah and this is my story about my shaky time. On Tuesday it was very scary. My friends were very scared too. I just wanted to cuddle mum and dad and see my cat Lucy. When I saw Lucy she was hiding under the couch. She is getting better now too