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The earthquake was so strong yesterday we even felt tremors in Shanxi Province at Guan Ai School. At about 2 in the afternoon, Jiang Peng and I were sitting in the library on a long wooden bench. When it started shaking, we kept thinking the other person was rocking the bench. Then we saw the windows rattling and with a nauseating sensation realized what was really happening. We rushed out just as Principal Sun started banging on the bell. The kids all came out of the classrooms and gathered in the yard waiting for aftershocks. The mood was anxious but there were no hysterics and the students were asking lots of questions. There hasn’t been an earthquake here in all of the teachers’ lifetime.

Today, we moved the TV out into the front yard and the whole school watched the evening news together. The 200 students were very attentive. Jiang Peng then talked with them about what caused the earthquake, what to do during an earthquake to stay as safe as possible, and read to them the symptoms of earthquakes of different strengths. Based on this, the students guessed that we experienced a quake in the range of magnitude 4. Some older students who had learned about earthquakes before in 自然课 (”Nature Class”) shared their knowledge with everyone. There were a lot of questions, some of them quite creative. For example, “Could we airlift the Indian Plate somewhere else so it stops causing all these disasters (this earthquake, the 2004 tsunami)?” Principal Sun then asked them to share their feelings about the earthquake. The first volunteer, a fifth-grade boy, said he felt 失去亲人的痛苦。A third-grader said he wanted to organize a 救员队 and yet another said we should collect all the used paper and bottles around the school to sell for money to donate to the quake victims. Another student said they could donate the money from their class donation boxes (爱心小箱）。Another idea a teacher came up with is to make a poster of messages and drawings from the students and mail it to the Civil Affairs Ministry in the disaster areas.

地震发生之后

（翻译：胡永宏）

昨天的地震是如此强烈，我们甚至在山西的关爱学校都能感觉到震颤。在大约下午2：00钟，江鹏和我正在图书室一个长板凳上坐着的时候，板凳开始摇晃，我们不断的想是其他人在摇板凳。然后我们看到咔嗒咔嗒的响，随着让人恶心的感觉，我们才意识 到发生了什么事。当孙校长开始敲钟的时候，我们冲出了图书室。孩子们都出了教室聚集在院子里等待余震的结束。他们神情焦虑，学生们开始问很多问题。这儿在学多老师的一生中，他们都没有经历过地震。

今天，我们把电视机搬到学校的前院，整个学校的人都在一起看晚间新闻。200个学生个个注意力集中。江鹏接着和他们谈论了是什么导致了地震的发生，在地震的时候应该做什么来尽可能待在一个安全的地方，并且给他们读了各个不同级别的地震的症候。以此为依据，学生们猜出我们所经历的地震大约在4级。一些大点的学生已经在自然课里学过地震，他们把学到的知识和其他人分享。他们提了很多问题，一些问题非常有创造力。例如，我们能不能把印度洋板块空运到别的地方以便他能停止制造灾难像地震和2004年度海啸？孙校长开始让他们分享他们关于地震的感受。第一个自愿分享的人是5年级的一个男孩说，他感到失去亲人的痛苦。一个3年 级的学生说，他想成立一个救援队。然而另外一个学生说，我们应该收集我们学校附近的废纸、瓶子把他们卖掉然后把钱捐献给地震受灾的难民。另一个学生说，他 们可以把他们班爱心小盒里的钱捐献出来。另一个老师想出来的主意是制作一个由学生写和画的海报并把它寄到灾难发生的当地政府。