Shocking moments
Terror everywhere, children crying, grief, anxiety, people rushing here and there; an extremely traumatic scene. This was what I saw on a news channel that was focusing on a recent earthquake at Haiti. I was horrified to see that. I suddenly remembered the incident that happened my own country. The incident that I remembered was of an earthquake that had occurred in Kathmandu, the capital city of my country Nepal.
It was the day when there was an earthquake in Kathmandu while I was about nine years old. It was just like a normal day in my school untill one of my friends noticed the desks and blackboard of my classroom shaking. Suddenly everyone started to scream and to run out of the classroom. I had not noticed the blackboard shaking and did not know what was going on but still ran out of the classroom following my friends as I was extremely horrified to find everyone running out of the classroom all of a sudden. It was while I was running out of the classroom that I heard someone screaming that it was an earthquake.
Everyone in our school went towards the basketball ground so that they could be safe. The shaking had already stopped and nothing happened to the buildings of our school but there was still a risk of the earthquake coming back. Everyone was worried that the earthquake might cause severe damage to the buildings in our city as the buildings in our city are not constructed as to be safe from earthquakes. Even though our city is the most vulnerable city to earthquakes the people of my city do not care enough to build earthquake proof houses. Everyone stayed in the school ground for an hour then we were sent to our homes. When we returned to our home we got to know that one of the buildings of our community had collapsed due to the earthquake.
Terror everywhere, children crying, grief, anxiety, people rushing here and there; an extremely traumatic scene. This was what I saw on a news channel that was focusing on a recent earthquake at Haiti. I was horrified to see that. I suddenly remembered the incident that happened my own country. The incident that I remembered was of an earthquake that had occurred in Kathmandu, the capital city of my country Nepal.
It was the day when there was an earthquake in Kathmandu while I was about nine years old. It was just like a normal day in my school untill one of my friends noticed the desks and blackboard of my classroom shaking. Suddenly everyone started to scream and to run out of the classroom. I had not noticed the blackboard shaking and did not know what was going on but still ran out of the classroom following my friends as I was extremely horrified to find everyone running out of the classroom all of a sudden. It was while I was running out of the classroom that I heard someone screaming that it was an earthquake.
Everyone in our school went towards the basketball ground so that they could be safe. The shaking had already stopped and nothing happened to the buildings of our school but there was still a risk of the earthquake coming back. Everyone was worried that the earthquake might cause severe damage to the buildings in our city as the buildings in our city are not constructed as to be safe from earthquakes. Even though our city is the most vulnerable city to earthquakes the people of my city do not care enough to build earthquake proof houses. Everyone stayed in the school ground for an hour then we were sent to our homes. When we returned to our home we got to know that one of the buildings of our community had collapsed due to the earthquake.
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