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  • Mood: Lazy
  • Listening to: Globus - Epicon
  • Reading: Njal's Tale
  • Watching: Boston Legal
  • Playing: No time for games now
  • Eating: Not much, diet time.
  • Drinking: Water
So two days ago there was this German festival here, music, German food, German beer on tap, lots of Germans walking around, and big German businesses showing what how to with the glaring omission of Carl Zeiss or any of the German car companies, although there was a Mini there (German company making an English car in France). It was also my friend's birthday and so many of us were there eating sausages and drinking lager and dark beers until late at night. Then we went to a tea house and hung out for a while longer then went back to the school where we decided to get something else to eat. Well we had fried noodled and we would live to regret it. The next day (yesterday) I spent the day in the hospital with pretty lousy dysentery. All liquids coming out of me were red. Thats no fun.

Lucky for me I got to come back home at night and sleep in my own bed. Today I carefully was eating some very bland food outside when suddenly there was an earthquake, im sure you would have heard of it on CNN or something. I thought I was getting dizzy again and was thinking "crap, back to the hospital" but turns out it was all of China going dizzy so I pulled out my camera to photograph the crowd of people that took to the streets.

There were several tremors through the day, many we could feel. Many people were outside in the wide open streets but then things just went back to normal. Some damage to some buildings, tiles falling of the sides of them, what seemed to be cracked window, and some stuff knocked over, but other then that Chongqing seemed to do ok, except for a primary school which is about 3 hours outside of the city that fell down and apparently trapped hundreds of children inside.


Well....never a dull moment here....
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:iconptdahood:
O...M...G. The earthquake -freezes-

I'm just glad my kin weren't residing there...
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:iconsaige:
We (me, my mom aka your second mom) were worried about you. I'm sorry I took so long to find out how you were, I don't have my own internet.
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:iconaiberengi:
I tell ya, ~avotius, when I can reduce a major geoinstability to 'suddenly, there was an earthquake' as if I were talking about the air conditioning coming back on...never a dull moment, indeed. :-)
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~SailorSnowflack May 14, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
I glad your OK. :hug:
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:iconoliau:
I actually thought of you when I heard of the earthquake because a) you're the only English speaker I have any contact with in China, and b) because I knew you were in central China somewhere.

Good to hear you're safe but the news from the region affected more severely is very disturbing. On the other hand it's good to see a good response from the emergency services in comparison to what's happening in Myanmar!
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:iconaliledesma:
Yeck, dysentery... Oh the joys of foriegn food in foreign places. The only time my friend got sick while visiting Japan was when she ate at McDonalds. :beer:
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:iconnsfbr:
Glad to hear that you are safe - since it would be a great loss if your eye and talent were lost to this calamity. Our news indicates around 9000 people have been killed in this earthquake. I have no idea if that is accurate, or if it is, if this is widely known inside RoC.

Stay safe, and God speed.
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:iconm0riendi:
:wow: that must been a bit scary. the biggest earthquake I felt I thought it was my dog trying to climb to my chair + the loud music I was listen too :P

hehe

hope it's all okay with you and everyone (didn't saw the news :O)

:peace::heart:
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:iconreddeno:
Whoops, didn't see this before I sent you a note. Anyhow, glad everything is okay.

Mildly disturbing how the earthquakes seem to follow you around--first Nisqually, now this. Bwahaha...
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~Akemi-Ayura May 12, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
I saw that this morning. I've been praying all morning. It's a shame. Those poor kids. :(
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