Last Friday our whole school’s day was suddenly changed because we were one of the schools affected by the tsunami warning. At 9:51 our schools morning bell rang and we all evacuated up Totara Heights. A lot of people were anxious because they were worried about their families but then we were told that Paihia and Waitangi have been evacuated that put their minds at ease. Since we left school quickly we weren’t able to grab our bags so we had no food or entertainment but still I felt grateful that we had somewhere safe to be.
Unfortunately that day the sun decided to be scorching hot but we had huge trees there
which covered our whole class.
Since we stayed up there for hours to keep our minds off what was happening around us
we played quizzes but we had to produce a weird noise as a buzzer to be picked. Also
there were generous people that offered to grab all of our school bags and we were even
given delicious sausage sizzles. Once we had our bags and we were settled it finally felt
like it was gonna be okay. Everyone was overcome with relief when we finally got the
alert that we could finally go back to school.
Honestly I felt extremely calm through the whole day knowing that a lot of my family lives in land. I also tried my best to stay calm because I knew there were people freaking out and over reacting wasn’t going to help them
Was your school affected by the tsunami?
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