We recently experienced the earthquake that caused so much destruction in Haiti. We had walked to the grocery store to pick up a few things after school. As we were walking home, the ground began to pitch and roll. Brian grabbed for a nearby metal gate. We didn't realize it was an earthquake at first. Brian mentioned that he felt dizzy. We stood there for a minute before we realized that it was an earthquake. We held on to the gate and watched the water in the puddles slosh back and forth. Above our heads, the electricity wires were swaying as if blown by a violent wind. However, the air was still during these eerie moments. Once the shaking subsided we walked the last block to our apartment building. Many of our neighbors were standing outside talking about what had happened. The math teacher from our school lives just three buildings down from us. He and his wife walked over, and we talked about whether or not it was safe to go back inside. During this time we were feeling some slight aftershocks. Eventually everyone started to go back inside, and we followed.
Nothing in our apartment was out of place or damaged. We later heard that the earthquake was about a 5.7 or a 5.9 here.
We haven't felt any more aftershocks, and there wasn't any damage in our city. We had school the next day and life settled back into its usual routine for us.
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