This morning I woke up to a text message from my mom telling me that I needed to check on the news right away and make sure that my Chilean family is safe. I flipped out, not knowing what was going on. I got online to see a top story about earthquakes in Chile. My heart dropped as I saw my city of Vina del Mar listed as an affected city. I got on facebook, and I was happy to see that my friend Manuel from Chile was online. He told me that there was some destruction and there were still tremors going on. He said that everyone was afraid, because there is a very high possibility that a tsunami will come through within the next few days. My host brother and sister from Chile weren’t online at the time, so I left them messages. I have heard back from both of them. The family is safe, the apartment is intact, but they haven’t heard anything from their family in the South. I am just trying to stay updated with everything that is going on. Everyone that was there last semester are trying to keep in touch and spread all of the information that we get. I was almost there this semester too, and so this is just turning out to be a godsend. I couldn’t imagine being over there in a foreign country with all of this destruction going on. Not only that, but I know that my parents would have heart attacks! If you could all just keep Chile in your prayers, that would be awesome. Hopefully no tsunamis, but now that the earthquakes have happened, we will just have to wait and see. There is no use in stressing, because everything is out of my control. I just can’t get them out of my mind. I am going to be productive and work on homework instead of focusing on this. Just keep them in mind J
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