14:58,12th May

14:58,12^th May

I never know there will a day change my life, but I could tell that 12^th May 14:58, the moment did.

During the 4 minutes of the magnitude 8.0 earthquake, I stayed in my dormitory the whole time.

The ground started to shake, about four minutes. I did not know the whole building was shaking itself or by those steps, It felt like the boat was going to sink, the plan was meeting an air crash, my whole body was falling in a high speed, out of control. We were shocked, stunned, dumped. We were not sure what was happening exactly. We screamed, squeezing, got out of the shaking hell building. We escaped the place luckily.

7~8,000 people stood in the square, the most reliable and safe place. We did not know what we were waiting for, the rescue or another earthquake. To be honest, I was not scared in the earthquake, but I felt deeply despair after it. Especially after the shock, the electricity and communication system went to pieces. I could not contact with my families, I was not sure whether they were ok, I even did not know anyone who just went through me whether they were still alive. I did not know if I still have a second chance to tell everyone I loved “I love you” one more time.

Panic, oceans of fear was surrounded me, I was lost……

When I finally heard “hello” from my mum, I was totally torn up. Nemours of tears just went out of my eyes, I felt living again. My blood refreshed again. That was about 5 hours after the shock, finally I heard her voice, I did not stop dialing her number since the beginning.

In that night we 5 people shared one bread, 2 people shared one bottle of water. We tried to lie down on the ground full of rubbery, friends embraced each other, closer and closer, pretending we had ignored the none-shaking floor.

In the middle of the night, we were waked up by the coldness of the immovable rain. The heavy rain dropped on our face, falling to our eyes turned in to the coldest tears, penetrating the last warm place of us— our hearts.

We had to move to another so called safe place, we drag our exhausted legs, carrying our wet begs going to the No.5 Lecture Theatre. The passage way near to the door were occupied by those who came earlier, even the little space of the toilet were also taken by several people. We had to enter the room, we had no ideal how to choose seat, those besides windows? No, if the wall or the window broke, the glasses will fall on us. Those besides front door? No doubt, they were taken either. We stood there, stunned. We squeezed sleepy people, sat where near the back door. We were tired, frustrated and wet. We had to sleep, we had no choice.

Did not know who turned on the TV, we knew we were not in the origin and we knew the number how many people died, everyone of us stuck our eyes on the screen. One channel! Forever! We had saw countless faces of bodies, abound of collapsed houses, we saw families separated by death, thousands people went to hospital, we were so frightened to close our eyes, we were so afraid to missed anything broadcasting we were going die!

The dawn came, the rain vanished, we finally waited the coming of light. Out teacher told us we could go back to the dormitory to rest for a while, so ahead to the building we went.

You think the happy ending was coming, but actually it was another nightmare. The second our head touched the pillow, yes, another shake storm was coming. The up stairs ran down, the rumble of steps were crashing your head, you could felt their strong desire of living. So strong that they even would like to stamp on your body to get out of this building.

Nightmare lasts……

Even today, the bottle on the table would not fall itself, the ground would not shake thousands times a day and everything looks peace and fine, meanwhile everything just looks like the moment 14:58, 12^th may, who know what is going to happen? But don’t worry; I had prepared a bottle of clean water and a big loaf of bread under my bed. It is ok, I am not freighted.