Well the National Earthquake Shakedown day was today, Wednesday the 26th, 2012.
If you don’t know what it is, I know that it is a day when all the schools in New Zealand perform an earthquake drill. Maybe the siren rang at other schools as well. The whole school had to do these simple things:
DROP COVER HOLD
under their desks. This is a big thing.
Some children don’t take this seriously. They say horrible things and don’t know how it would really feel. I think that all the children with silly behaviour wont know what to do and they would feel more terrified than the others. Miss Barry always puts them in a situation when they are thinking about the children that are in a EARTHQUAKE. Stuff falling on them, getting hit and probably dying through bad wounds. What if that happened to you?
Earthquake drills help children create awareness if they're actually in a real, bad, EARTHQUAKE. I could not bear to be in a real EARTHQUAKE. I absolutely will be frightened and would just probably be crying in fear.
As our teacher was telling us that the people of Christchurch were scared to death when those huge EARTHQUAKES hit. I think they would be too. A student in my class said that when this drill was going on that it didn’t seem like it was going on for 1 minute at all, she felt like it was going on for ages. She felt scared then. As the other students listened to her they all felt the same emotion. All the students were thinking that if this was real, they could imagine the water pipes bursting, and hot water will be flying on them. As well as the ceiling was falling in. They all imagined hugemongous things falling. How terrifying that would be?
It is just so melancholy, hundreds and hundreds of people have died during EARTHQUAKES. Some could have died with poles, parts of the ceiling and different things on top of them. New Zealand has had a few EARTHQUAKES but not as much or as bad as Christchurch.
Serious damage has happened to Christchurch. Such as buildings, families and their houses. They go to places where they sleep, drink and go to the toilet. Because many of them still don’t have any of those things in their houses today.
Have you been in a EARTHQUAKE? Well if you haven’t, remember the things that I told you before. Practise with your family as you would normally do this with a fire drill. Because you don’t know what will happen anytime, anywhere and still the thing that I am sure you will remember is to:
DROP COVER HOLD
