It was a cold Saturday morning I woke my friend Melissa up to tell her to put the fire back on but there was no more matches. So I tried to go back to sleep on her couch when the house started shaking.
During that time I thought the whole house was moving towards her fence Melissa jumped up and started screaming "EARTHQUAKE!!! wake up!" I still was lying in bed a couple of minutes after that.
Her whole family plus me were standing in the doorway terrified down to the bone well I was. A little butterfly plate fell down and broke in their house and that was it.
After the whole family went to back to bed,I didn't want to sleep in the lounge so we moved into Melissa's room. I couldn't get back to sleep after how furiously the house had shaken.
Later, about 7 o'clock, Melissa and I got up and made ballon animals. Then just out of the bloom a pretty good aftershock happened. Soon after I didn't want to touch the ground incase it lifted or put a big humungous hole in the floor. When we were all up and it was sunny outside I could see kids playing like nothing had happened.
During the next day I had to go to Kaiapoi Pony Club. It was scary because we had to go across the old waimakariri bridge and it had lifted about 30 centimeters.
After about 6 days of aftershocks I got sick of them and went down to my bache where we couldn't feel them. So we went whitebait fishing and I went for some walks over the past 2 days, to get back to more aftershocks.
It was a scary time and I found out about people who had been hurt off one news so I could be updated.
So I hope Canterbury doesn't have a disaster that big again or one at all.
I think it was some scary stuff
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