At 2:54am I was shaken awake by an earthquake that I later found out had a magnitude of 5.0. It's been a long time since I have actually felt an earthquake. It was pretty exciting, I'm not going to lie. It wasn't strong enough to knock anything out of place, but it definitely shook the apartment. I heard Natalie open her bedroom door and I thought that maybe it had scared her and so I got up to make sure she was okay. She was, she just wanted to see if I had woken up and wanted to talk to me about it. We talked about it for a minute or two and Beth asked if earthquakes happen a lot here (they do, but they are usually so small we don't or we barely feel them). Once I knew everyone was okay, I headed back to bed. It was 3am for goodness sakes, why were they wanting to have a little pow-wow about the earthquake?
I was able to fall back asleep but I think that an hour later I felt an aftershock. No one else was able to feel it though so I'm starting to think that I made that part up. I know that when I was falling back asleep I was thinking about the aftershock, but I could have sworn that I fell asleep and was woken up later and thought, "oh, yep, there it is, we did have an aftershock." I woke up at 6am to do a workout before going to Tzu Chi. I had a good workout and was ready to go with time to spare.
Today was NOT exciting. In fact, it was pretty boring. I'm glad that I was able to go and help because they really appreciate us being there, but today was nothing like I was thinking it was going to be. At the last camp we were fully involved with everything. This time, we sat and watched the adults teach the kids in a big auditorium. The only time we had to interact with the students was during the time when we taught
about recycling. That was good though. There were four groups that cycled through and each group was there for 20 minutes. I thought I was going to hurt myself teaching about recycling for 80 minutes. But, the rest of the gang didn't have anything to do so they came to help and I suggested that we take turns teaching and we did. I only had to teach the first rotation and then just help out with the other three. It made it go by so much faster. Plus, I didn't have to recite the article, we just talked to the kids so that was better too.
So we hardly interacted with the kids at all, we sat through a lot of boring hygiene lessons that were given in Chinese (although after seeing that one of the slides said "SARS" I'm glad I wasn't listening because I can tend to be a little bit of a hypochondriac and I don't really need to start thinking I have SARS), and it lasted 12 hours.
On the positive side, we got free lunch and dinner which tasted quite good and at the end we watched the Tzu Chi delegates perform a sign language opera and a group of kids did a drama presentation where they dressed up like snow white and the seven dwarfs and taught about how you can help others.
Uggg. I am so wiped out right now. I didn't get a great night sleep because I didn't go to bed until after midnight, I was woken up at 3 and 4am and then I was up and moving by 6:30am. And on top of that, a whole day of not doing too much wipes me out. It's weird, but it's true. Doing nothing somehow takes a lot out of you.
The pictures are of Tzu Chi Elementary/Junior High/High School and of the sign language opera and children's drama.
I was able to fall back asleep but I think that an hour later I felt an aftershock. No one else was able to feel it though so I'm starting to think that I made that part up. I know that when I was falling back asleep I was thinking about the aftershock, but I could have sworn that I fell asleep and was woken up later and thought, "oh, yep, there it is, we did have an aftershock." I woke up at 6am to do a workout before going to Tzu Chi. I had a good workout and was ready to go with time to spare.
Today was NOT exciting. In fact, it was pretty boring. I'm glad that I was able to go and help because they really appreciate us being there, but today was nothing like I was thinking it was going to be. At the last camp we were fully involved with everything. This time, we sat and watched the adults teach the kids in a big auditorium. The only time we had to interact with the students was during the time when we taught
about recycling. That was good though. There were four groups that cycled through and each group was there for 20 minutes. I thought I was going to hurt myself teaching about recycling for 80 minutes. But, the rest of the gang didn't have anything to do so they came to help and I suggested that we take turns teaching and we did. I only had to teach the first rotation and then just help out with the other three. It made it go by so much faster. Plus, I didn't have to recite the article, we just talked to the kids so that was better too.So we hardly interacted with the kids at all, we sat through a lot of boring hygiene lessons that were given in Chinese (although after seeing that one of the slides said "SARS" I'm glad I wasn't listening because I can tend to be a little bit of a hypochondriac and I don't really need to start thinking I have SARS), and it lasted 12 hours.
On the positive side, we got free lunch and dinner which tasted quite good and at the end we watched the Tzu Chi delegates perform a sign language opera and a group of kids did a drama presentation where they dressed up like snow white and the seven dwarfs and taught about how you can help others.Uggg. I am so wiped out right now. I didn't get a great night sleep because I didn't go to bed until after midnight, I was woken up at 3 and 4am and then I was up and moving by 6:30am. And on top of that, a whole day of not doing too much wipes me out. It's weird, but it's true. Doing nothing somehow takes a lot out of you.
The pictures are of Tzu Chi Elementary/Junior High/High School and of the sign language opera and children's drama.
1 comment:
Earthquake and you did not run for a door frame? You must be from California
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