Earthquake!!

It always seems that natural disasters are too faraway from us, until today I know that how close they can be...
A call from mum awoke me from my reverie while I was reading redox reaction in the cool and cosy study room. (Yesterday due to my late return, I was issued an hourly-report as a punishment by the discipline teacher,so I have to stay in the study room study the whole day and report HOURLY) I wondered whether some emergent accidents happened, as usually she only calls at night, her worried tone did not prove my prediction wrong, yet it contained some elements of "black humour" in her tone.

"You know the earthquake, yesterday I was not at home the whole afternoon because of the earthquake..."
"EARTHQUAKE? It is only in Si Chuan, isn't it?" Her sentence struck fear in my heart that I interrupted her with intensified anxiety."
"Oh, don't worry about it, only a small fraction of the seismic wave affected here,so it is not very serious.."she tried to reassure me but to no avail, for I was still captured by fear.
"yet how did you know it was earthquake, did you FEEL it?"curiosity arose along with anxiety, I could feel my heart palpitating.
"I was sitting in front of the computer when the light in our bedroom began to shake, it was all of a sudden that I knew immediately that it could be nothing but an earthquake..."she began her story with great excitement, as if she was a hero(heroine actually).
"Then.."

"Then I put on my shoes and go directly downstairs, I came to the Wen Bo Plaza, a lot of people were there in avoidance of the upcoming earthquake, it was quite scary, everyone eschewed high-rise buildings...that is why I did not dare to stay in the house, it would be terrible."
"Only the light began to shake?"My curiosity was not completely satisfied.
"It was then the whole floor, because I was too panicky to think a little further that I could just rush down, so you too must always be prepared to run away in case of emergency..as agile as me..."
"Ok...no problem. Yet are you sure it is safe now? Will there be another attack, suddenly?"
"Oh, Si Chuan was badly affected, here it is quite Ok, so don't worry,oh,students from Exp School are dismissed to prevent potential injury..."
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Knowing from The Strait Times that China was suffering from the earthquake, those Chinese chefs from the the hostel kitchen are all empathetic with great concern.Knowing from my mum that she has been so close to such a terrible disaster, I let out a sigh of relief that we had all been so fortunate.

It seems that this Olympic Year is proved to be a challenging period, with so many "rough protrusions" all along the way, but I believe that it is in such a trying period that a country grows, so does its people. Eventually the cocoon will be broken and what then appears is a beautiful butterfly.