Upon arriving in our new home, we met a most welcoming family filled with kindness and care. During the night, a sudden power cut resulted in us realizing the in depth emotions of the people in Bhuj after the earthquake in 2001, and how the people overcome the struggles of restarting a new life.
A NEW LIFE... A NEW BEGINNING...
Before coming to Bhuj, we would see news of natural calamity feeling distant and not connected. But after coming to this area, we heard the sufferings a family had to undergo at the time of the disaster.
At the time of power cut our neighbour along with her family came over to our new flat to make us feel comfortable, a great first impression.
After a while we all started talking about our life experiences which then led to them showing us photos of the destruction and how their family went through such a life changing transformation. One of the family members described the dream she saw the night before the earthquake, she described how she thought that something very bad was going to happen and all the walls would collapse upon them, she warned her family but everybody ignored her thinking that she had just had a bad dream. It turns out that the seven years old girl was right.
Her eldest sister saved the lives of many people and now is honoured by the government for such a noble cause every 26th of January. Her entire family took almost two years to recover with such a grief and return back to a normal life. For months and months they had to live on roads. Now, after ten years they understood that what life means. It led us to think about what we had previously wrote on our presentation about being content with the small things in life.
The powercut was not just an accident, it taught us the strengths of human nature and made us question our outlook on life.
A NEW LIFE... A NEW BEGINNING...
Before coming to Bhuj, we would see news of natural calamity feeling distant and not connected. But after coming to this area, we heard the sufferings a family had to undergo at the time of the disaster.
At the time of power cut our neighbour along with her family came over to our new flat to make us feel comfortable, a great first impression.
After a while we all started talking about our life experiences which then led to them showing us photos of the destruction and how their family went through such a life changing transformation. One of the family members described the dream she saw the night before the earthquake, she described how she thought that something very bad was going to happen and all the walls would collapse upon them, she warned her family but everybody ignored her thinking that she had just had a bad dream. It turns out that the seven years old girl was right.
Her eldest sister saved the lives of many people and now is honoured by the government for such a noble cause every 26th of January. Her entire family took almost two years to recover with such a grief and return back to a normal life. For months and months they had to live on roads. Now, after ten years they understood that what life means. It led us to think about what we had previously wrote on our presentation about being content with the small things in life.
The powercut was not just an accident, it taught us the strengths of human nature and made us question our outlook on life.
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