Thank you CNN...

In case for some reason you haven´t heard, there was an earthquake in Peru wednesday night. A pretty massive earthquake, 7.9. Thankfully it didn´t really hit Cusco, they say it was only a 3, but on the coast, the cities of Ica, Pisco and Lima got hit really bad with 80% of Pisco in ruins. I was out for dinner when it happened. Victoria, Lisa and I were just sitting there and I felt like the table was shaking but just thought it was one of them moving it. Then it didn´t stop and I started to get really dizzy and we all just looked at each other like ´is that you?´ Then we finally realized it was an earthquake.  The lights on the ceiling were spinning in circles and I started to feel really sick from it. We just sat still in our seats, not really sure what to do and nervously wondering if it was going to get worse. Luckily it didn´t and stopped after about a minute or so. It could have been longer or shorter, you always remember that kind of stuff differently. We didn´t think anything of it and just thought it was kinda cool that we just felt an earthquake. Some people here didn´t even feel it. But then we got back to our residence and the nightguard was telling us that there were a bunch of people dead on the coast from it and the next morning we started hearing about how bad it actually was. First I heard 200 dead and hundreds in the hospital, then 300, 350, 400, 450 and over a thousand in the hospital. And to make things better for us students here, CNN puts the headline ´Dead Bodies line the streets of Peru´ on the website. Which yes was true, but not ALL of Peru, the school was getting phone calls, everyone had worried emails from friends and family. In 10 days I was going to be in Ica, Nazca and Pisco, thank you timing. But now I don´t know if I´ll even be able to go because the roads are horrible (more so than usual 3rd world countries) and there isn´t really anything left standing, might not even be a place for me to stay. But I´ll see what happens as time goes on. I would really still like to go, but my experience of the cities is going to be totally altered from what it would have been.