Before the earthquake, I was reading for my exam and after reading I felt sleepy, so Sarika and I were sleeping in the downstairs room. Ramraj bro was calling us to clean the tank and after sleeping I felt that something was happening and suddenly I woke up. I thought that Ramraj bro was shaking us to make us awake but it was an earthquake. Sarika sis tried to open the door but she couldn’t. Instead, she fell behind and she cried.
Nowadays I don’t feel scared because the earthquakes only come in small Richter. I feel sad when I hear the news of people dying and damaged and destroyed houses. Our country, Nepal has again become under-developed. All the historical places are damaged and destroyed. It has been one month and all the people and I were worried when the first big earthquake came but we are staying inside the house.
When the earthquake occurred on 25th April 2015, in the morning of that day I was trying to clean up the tank and was shouting to the other girls to help me to clean the tank. Nobody came to help me so I also left to clean the tank. After that I was playing with our dog named “Punti”. When I was playing with Punti the ground frequently started to move here and there. I was scared a little bit and Punti also began to bark. I thought it was an earthquake. Then we both ran out of the main gate. All the girls were crying and shouting in their rooms.
One month after the earthquake, we are at the hostel of Mitrataa. At this time I feel safe and lucky to be the part of Mitrataa Foundation because many people have lost their lives and some people are not able to get support and love which I am getting. Some people were scaring other people by saying that there would be another big earthquake like before, but I’m not scared more than before because at first I was at the hostel of Riviera school and scared of the earthquake but then I was brought to Mitrataa and feel like there is still Mitrataa Foundation to protect me.
When the earthquake came I was in the hostel of Riviera International Academy. The day was Saturday. Luckily my sisters and friends had already taken a bath and in my turn I was washing my hair with shampoo. One of my friends told me that earthquake was coming. I thought why she is mocking with me but suddenly I felt the mirror moving like a swing, the geyser gas was making a bizarre sound.
It’s been more than a month but we’re still having minimum of 4 aftershocks a day. Everything has changed, as in our lives are different from how it was before one month. I still wish I could wake up and say “that was a long and horrible dream” and move back to normal life. I know even a magician cannot fulfill this wish.
The weather was cloudy from the morning so I was expecting heavy rain in the afternoon. I never liked the rain, so somehow the weather had influenced my mood. I was in the café far from our house with brother. We were meeting after a long time, so we were chatting. I was playing with my phone so I didn’t notice at first. Brother paused and alarmed me that the ground was shaking. Then I felt it too. Slowly we walked down to the door frame. I could still feel that the ground was shaking like the ‘Columbus’ that we used to play at Fun Park.
The weather was cold. Schools were closed. The children’s were playing including my own brother, Gautam. I was sitting on our shop with my father. My mother was washing utensils. I felt something shaking so did my father. Because of the cold weather my father thought I was shaking and he asked me to wear warm clothes. I had no idea what was happening until my mother told me it was an earthquake. The ground was shaking dangerously and we promptly ran out of the house and sat in the open space with hundreds of people. I couldn’t think nor could I breathe properly. I was full of emptiness. The scene was so frightening and scary. People were crying, running here and there to save themselves from dying. Some of them were shocked because of the sudden shaking or maybe it was the first experience for them too. One old woman passed by who was hit by the ladder of stupa on her head. The scene made us emotional.
It was Saturday in the morning at 11:55 am and all the schools as well as colleges were closed. I was in a meeting with the scholarship children of Mitrataa Foundation with Bec and other staff. We were talking about different topics like relationships between schools and students, students and parents and duties of students. When we started to talk we felt that something is moving because the ground was shaking we didn’t know it was an earthquake. Patrick Wilson the principal of the school told us earthquake came. When we heard the word earthquake, all of us panicked and started to run outside into the garden.
It has been 9 months but I still feel scared because still small shocks are coming. After the earthquake our country made a new constitution. We all Nepalese celebrated some festivals like Dashain and Tihar. But not everyone was happy. Those who badly suffered from the earthquake suffered more. It was a really hard time for them to celebrate festivals when they had lost their house, property and family members too.
It’s been more than 9 months after the devastating earthquake in Nepal. After the earthquake, people cannot help themselves. So people are still waiting for others hand or support to help them. It’s been 9 month but still people are in a similar condition because they know someone can help them to get through it. After this people of Kathmandu started their life as normal. In spite of this villagers cannot get through so they are waiting for helpers to help them.
On 25th April when the earthquake came everyone was on ground, they were afraid to stay in home and do regular duty. We all were afraid of height and tall buildings. We all now have changed our mind and do our regular work. We are not much afraid of height and tall buildings. We all have started to live our normal life. We all forget about earthquake and started to build houses to live in.
It was on 25th April 2015 Saturday. Many houses and life of the people were lost. Many Nepalese were badly affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Almost 50 thousand houses were destroyed and many people were killed. I still remember that day; it was like a nightmare for me. Our valuable historical places were destroyed as well as many children lost their life. People didn’t have places to live and they were hopeless. The Earthquake on 25th April 2015 made Nepalese cry and suffer more.
Just nine months ago, the earthquake changed every Nepali’s daily life. Now, it has been more than nine months but we are still having minor tremors. I have learnt so many effective lessons within this year. I can still hear the scared part of me from that black day. But, all we did was move ahead. We didn’t lose our hope.
It’s been nine and half months since the biggest earthquake hit Nepal. Still there is some kind of fear of another big earthquake in people. People inside the city felt another tremor at 1 AM in the morning last week. This reminded them of the biggest earthquake nine months ago and made them alert that the tremor is still on.
It has been 9 months; I can still feel shocks and small trauma of earthquake. Our country was trapped by a massive earthquake which took place on April 2015. The results of the massive earthquake, many Nepali were killed and many building were damaged. People face the scarcity of foods, shelters and other things. I found that poverty rate was increasing in speedy ways. Happiness was arrived in our country.
9 months after a terrible earthquake struck in our country, I can still feel the shake of earthquake up to a month ago. On the day of Baishakh 29 (12th May), more numbers of innocent people were killed and all the houses, temples were also destroyed in this certain period of time. From that day we people started to stay away from home, to safe place or ground. People started lose their hope and belief.