The pupils' reactions to the earthquake were varying degrees of bizarre, inaccurate and downright ridiculous. Rather predictably some decided that it would be fun to 'recreate' the quake by shaking their desks about. Indeed, by period 5 it had gotten rather dull.
Some are still anticipating an aftershock and I think will do until we next experience an earthquake at which point they'll turn round say 'told you so'.
Many said that their cats and dogs were running around all crazy just before the earthquake hit - animals: alwasy the first to know.
One boy was puzzled why his mother had rung his gran to check if she'd experienced the earthquake. When telling the story he laughed at his mother's idiocy and said 'it's the whole world that shakes'. I'll leave that one to the geography teachers to sort out.
A girl had said that she thought it was her cats running around the house, another's mum had thought a lorry had crashed into their house. Though given my own initial reaction that my washing machine had blown up I'd better not lord it over them too much.
2008-02-28 @ 21:27