Monday, August 25, 2008

Quakes Quakes go away...

The night after the earthquake we experienced another tremor, we ran downstairs again (we had our 'earthquake' bag ready), but people on the first floor hadn't felt it, our across the hall neighbors and others had. We stayed out for a little while but not long. This is actually helping us bond with our neighbors! The following night David got a call from his friend who lives in a village not far from here saying that an official had come out there and told them that an earthquake was going to happen that night and they were worried about the structure of the village homes. He called us to make sure we knew and would be safe. This freaked us (me) out, for three nights in a row, come on! We thought we had missed an announcement or something. We called a few people, talked to some neighbors, no one had heard this, we felt much better, moved Sophia back into our room and went to sleep (sort of).

Since then we have learned various things of what to do in an earthquake, like don't run down stairs. There are people here in our hospital from the town where it hit, mostly broken bones. Thousands of people have been affected, we are trying to see if there is any way we can help, we will see.