It was a beautiful day with a clear, blue sky and a soft wind. Everything was quiet and the book in my hands was lovely until I felt my chair 1 . I noticed the little round table moving. At that moment, I thought to myself, "It is an earthquake." I was 2 as I ran to tell my parents. But when I reached them, the earthquake stopped.
Nothing happened in the next few hours. My family and I were not 3 and our house was still standing. We watched the news about the 4 . The epicenter (震中) was very close to Hualien. We felt very 5 to be far away from it. After we watched the situation in Hualien on TV, I decided to volunteer to help those people right away.
I arrived in Hualien county with a few other volunteers. We tried to 6 the people there. After hours of 7 , we found a few people who were lucky to be alive. We 8 sent for doctors to make sure that they were all right. When they met their families, they cried for 9 . That made me happy. However, not everyone had a happy ending. We also found 10 of those not making it through the earthquake. And I felt terrible when I saw the tears of the people crying for those dead people.
