A nineteen year old Indonesian student looks back to the earthquake of October 2009.

I was sleeping when suddenly I felt a small quake.

At first I didn't do anything, but then I could feel it get bigger.  I heard a noise which turned out to be a landslide that was triggered by the quake.

My school was just 250 metres away from where I lived.  The building was flattened.

We went back to school after 3 weeks to the same building but it was in a terrible condition. 

Now the school has been rebuilt but there are not too many students left as many of them died when they were trapped and buried under the rubble.

I've been saddened by the quake in Haiti especially knowing that some school buildings were damaged, as school is an education centre, an institution that produces educated people for the country's development.

I would like to give a message to all the victims as well as the students: 

Please be patient. Don't stop struggling just because we lost our relatives and belongings. Use the lesson of surviving this disaster to build a better future. 
  

How did they do that?

BBC World service News for The World Today are exploring the impact of earthquakes through schools, including reports from a temporary school set up in Port au Prince by UNICEF.

Nanshan Middle School in Sichuan is linked to William Bradford Community College in Leicester.  

UK pupils visited Sichuan last summer and toured devastated town Beichuan.  See their photo story.  

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