Thoughts.com Blogs - Earthquake in Sichuan

There's been an earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, recently, and it's supposed to be an earthquake level 7.9. All the news channels are constantly reporting disasters in Sichuan, and a few days ago the media said that a school in Sichuan completely collapsed on top of all the students who were still having lessons.

The pictures which were transmitted were horrible, mountains of debris with school bags and pencil cases scattered here and there. Parents were desperately crying, restrained only by the police surrounding the school. About 50 000 have been reported dead, and many more left homeless. The orphanages have suddenly been crowded with weeping children, and it truly hurts me to see these images.

My grandfather is from Sichuan, and was visiting his hometown when the earthquake started. Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be much disturbance in that area, so he's safe.

In school today we had to translate a presentation about this earthquake from English to Mandarin, and on it was so many pictures of the same sort. My whole family is giving money to the people in need in Sichuan, and we're all praying it will end sometime soon.