Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • So, I am a victim of the Mexico Puebla earthquake.

  • I don't mean like, I'm dead nor my house crumbled nor am I under pieces of rubble trying to

  • record.

  • NO.

  • My house is okay, maybe a few cracks here and there and I am still alive.

  • So during the time of the earthquake, I was at school with my friends, that same day we

  • had a practice for the Earthquake.

  • So, we were in math class and the bell rang, which means that we had to evacuate the school.

  • One of my friends said, "hey what if a real earthquake would happen today?, that would

  • be so hilarious."

  • So we all laughed at it because we thought it was seriously a joke.

  • After we evacuated the school, as a practice.

  • As, A, PracticeWe came back in our original classes and we continued.

  • After Math it was computer class.

  • It was one...and, one ten, that is when the Earthquake started.

  • To be honest, I didn't feel it at first, I felt really sick.

  • I could have thrown up, but it was not really me, it was actually the Earthquake.

  • It started getting stronger and I'm there like - "Am i hallucinating?- or is this not me?"

  • Then one of my classmates screamed, “IT'S AN EARTHQUAKE!!”

  • And everyone stood in shock and we were panicking because the normal alarm of earthquake didn't

  • do anything, it didn't say anything!

  • We just screamed.

  • Our teacher was like, “please calm down, settle down and please go downstairs really

  • calmly... and we didn't listen.

  • Then somebody screamed – “A PIECE OF THE ROOF FELL!”

  • Everyone started running a bit faster down the stairs, then somebody screamed -

  • "THE STAIRS ARE RUMBLING AND BREAKING!”

  • So we ran even faster, they were like pushing me, they were screaming and I was like, “oh

  • my gosh, oh my gosh, I'm not going to die today, just get out of here. Get out of her Marie!”

  • I grabbed onto something, don't remember what or who, and we ran.

  • After we evacuated the school, the earthquake starts really to calm down and we were okay!

  • One of my friends started crying because she didn't know what had happened to her Mom because

  • we could not call them or anything.

  • After like half and hour, the school was evacuating because there were cracks everywhere

  • in school and the piece of the roof was actually in front of my class. It was really scary.

  • When my Mom came in she asked my friends, “Are you all alright?”

  • And we saidyes.”

  • And we were all terrified.

  • When I came home I looked at the news and some buildings, some schools were really bad.

  • My school was trying to give donations to Oaxaca and Mexico and everywhere that

  • the earthquakes had been damaged.

So, I am a victim of the Mexico Puebla earthquake.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it