Ayman is a 13 year old who lives in the tent village of Morri Gorj. She has surviving parents as well as 6 sisters and 1 younger brother...
When I asked Ayman about how she felt when the earthquake started this is how she responded:
"I didn't have consciousness so how could I tell you how I felt! I was on my way home from playing near the water with my friends and I was under a walnut tree and then suddenly the earthquake started she said while her face suddenly looked upset. Soon after the earthquake started I fainted out of fear.
When I got up and saw that all the houses nearby had collapsed I couldn't believe what I saw and quickly got up to find my sisters and I saw my neighbors and my "Dada" (paternal grandfather) and I told him you're too old to go looking for my sisters, I'll go look for them myself. Soon afterwards I met some of my sisters and saw them crying and looking very solemn on the stairs of our recently destroyed house. Then me and my sisters got up and saw my father and hugged him and he went looking for the rest of my sisters. Then two cousins of ours came to help us and they took two of my younger sisters and from there my Dada picked up his Qur'an from the Masjid which was damaged as well. Then we all headed out for my mother's school near where we all spent the night. I have to go now I should help my mother in the tent…"
On October 8th in Kashmir many families were separated from each other. They had to travel miles to find each other, if they were so lucky.
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I have never been to kashmir. heard a lot about it. I used to read of its beauty when i was younger. I remember teh description of shalimar and nishaad baag in my hindi textbooks. I used to fantasize about the snow covered mountain ranges. I heard natives there are very friendly. Do you see any of this now, or at least a glimse of kashmir's pride now in all that rubble? I one place that entire india is so proud of calling it a nature's paradise, do you see any of it buried under that debre? maybe mother nature is trying to tell us something. maybe we should stop fighting and shouting to blame eachother adn listen to her now, before its too late.
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