EARTHQUAKE!!!

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012


At 6am this morning I woke up from a dream to my bed shaking!  At first I thought I was in a movie where you're in a hotel room and you can hear the people in the next room having sex and shaking the bed and walls.  Hahahaha.  Then the shaking climaxed (pardon the pun) and stopped.  Just before it stopped I realized that the rooms next to mine are not occupied and the building is made of cement...I sat up in bed with my eyes wide from excitement!  I feel horrible to say this, becuase lives may have been negatively affected by this earthquake, but I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.  I loved the geology unit in 7th grade science (thanks, Mrs. Klatt, for showing us your rock collection)...plate tectonics and volcanoes and rocks put me in awe.  The world and its natural power is so much bigger than us it's hard to fathom.


Anyway, no damage from the tremor here in PVM.  As much as geology interests me, I do hope to not experience a life-threatening quake.  But a quote from one of my advisers comes to mind here (although it was in regards to struggling with my research project and the Spanish language): 


'You're working now with a community that lives despair daily.  It only makes sense to feel some of that when working with them.  If you never feel it during your extended time in PVM, you haven't made yourself vulnerable enough.'


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