Very Scary Friday

Very Scary Friday

The Earthquake

Waking up at 2.30 in the morning with my bed shaking and rumbling, doors shutting and opening. There was an earthquake.  As soon as I woke up I placed my hands over my head because I thought my bunk was going to fall over. I was worried because my little brother was on the top bunk still asleep.  After the ground stopped shaking, I rushed to my Mum and Dad's room.  I asked my Mum if there was going to be a tsunami, she rushed to her phone and looked at all the websites, the websites said there was a low possibility, this made us all feel very relieved. My family tried to go back to sleep because our house is safe behind heaps of high hills. Even still, I found it hard to go to sleep after that. 

Time to wake up

It was morning and the birds were chirping loudly, it was time to wake up and get ready to go to school. The sparkling sunlight shone over the tops of my curtains, it woke me, but I still felt tired after being woken earlier that morning. We hopped on our bikes and rode to school listening to the waves crashing from a distance, the cool breeze blowing my silky long hair as the sun rose higher and higher.  We arrived at school, shoved my bike in the rack and travelled to class.  Loudly the nine o'clock bell rang, we all sat down on the mat and the teachers told us about the earthquake. Our class had an assembly but not with the whole school because of COVID. Half way through koka Rozie's phone beeped, she rushed out of the door  to go talk to koka Nolian. I felt scared and worried. 

Sirens echoed across the school. Our whole school had to evacuate to our meeting area at the back off the school and below the big hill.  Koka Nolian told us about a tsunami, she announced that one was not going to come, only up the coast from Tolaga bay had to evaluate. That made me feel better.   She went over our plan if one was going to come. She also said that there was another earthquake out deep sea, this one was stronger than the one last night.  Travelling back to class knowing that the teachers have a plan. 

Ending

There was no tsunami the whole day in Gisborne but there was  a little tsunami up the coast. It did not take out any houses, that was good, it just came through the bay like a huge wave. Have you seen a  tsunami before? I felt nervous that whole day.  Luckley school had all the alarms  we needed and a plan if there was going be a tsunami. I told my Mum all the news when I got home, she told me some things as well.  At the end of the day, there were no more tusimsi warnings and all the people from up the coast could go back to their homes . That was probably the scariest Friday of my life. 

The End