Terremoto.

So today started out like any other day.  It's Friday the 13th, but no big deal, nothing bad will happen, right?  I'm not supersticious or anything.  I went to class this morning, came back home during lunch break to finish working on my presentation for my Spanish class.  I didn't feel too well today, I think the heat is getting to me. Then I went back to Intercultura for Spanish class.  My Spanish teacher gave me some cookies to eat and said the sugar would help me feel better...apparently she was right!  You all should know the routine by now.

During class, the sky let loose again.  More thunder and lightning.  Lots and lots of rain.  We were giving presentations today and when it was my turn, the rain was so loud I felt like I was yelling at the class!!
We had our first exam today.  It was a lot longer than I expected, but I did well.  It was really hard to focus while taking the exam though because the rain on the tin roof and the thunder were so loud. While she was grading them she let us have a break. 

After our break we went over our exams and then she said we were going to play a game.  She started writing on the board and it was a game I used to play with my Spanish tutor freshman year.  There are a bunch of different categories such as name, city, fruit, color, etc.  The teacher will give you a letter and the players have about 30 seconds to fill in each category with words that start with that letter. 

Our first letter was "f" and I was thinking of words.  Then the table started moving back and forth and I was wondering who was shaking it.  It passed through my mind, "is this an earthquake?"  "No, that wouldn't happen."  Then I looked at the walls and they were moving too! Then I looked at my teacher and I could tell by her expression that this was not good.  It all happened so fast that I don't remember what she said but we all started running.  We were upstairs so we were just following the crowd trying to get downstairs as quick as possible.  We hurried into what I guess is their safe spot for when earthquakes happen.  Needless to say, it was quite chaotic, because the entire student body was in this small area.  Our professor came over to the 3 of us who are in her class to console us.  Were we okay? Are we scared? Honestly I was fine at the time, really just shocked about what had just occured.

The director of the school came out and gave us the green light to go back in.  I think classes were cancelled for the rest of the day.  (The quake happened at 4:50 and school is set to end at 5:30)  My classmates and I started heading back in, but my professor wouldn't let us go back in.  She was worried about an aftershock, especially since we didn't know where the epicenter was.  Finally we went back upstairs to our classroom.  The paper I had been working on was on the floor across the room, my water bottle was tipped over, things had definitely shifted around. 

I know I definitely had angels watching over me today!