This area in 彭州市 is affected quite badly because they are situated very near to the epicenter. The debris from two sides of the mountains on both sides came crumbling down crushing all the houses below it.
1030hr. Arrived at 四川省彭州市通济中学 where the teachers explained to us how this fateful day destroyed their schools and killed a few of their students. The problems they faced is the shortage of teaching materials, books, tables and chairs. He showed us that many of the things like tables and chairs and bed frames were salvaged from the debris to re-use. The feeling is like, "Got exterior but no interior".
A lot of construction work were still on-going. This was also the place where the Hong Kong team came to interact with the students on a day event and helped to shift the tables & chairs in the classrooms.
1130hr. Similar situation is at the四川省彭州市小鱼洞編镇九年制学校 where re-construction is on-going. The library is of a smaller scale but the books are still in a mess as there’s no proper system to set it up.
One unique thing that we observed is that the new structure of the school also included the handicapped and wheel-chair accessible concept. This is pertaining to the students who were handicapped during the earthquake.1400hr. 小鱼洞大桥. This bridge was situated along the earthquake belt and thus it came crumbing down with the shaking and vibrating of the whole structure
1500hr. 中法桥白鹿九年制学校. This school was built by the French, and has exactly a 100years of history. This This school was used as a research by the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration because of the amazing way in which the 2 school buildings were separated by a difference of ~3m above ground. http://www.eq-igl.ac.cn/
We ended the end of our recee trip with a simple porridge buffet near 平平's new home. Finally, something not so oily and spicy. Back in hotel, we had many things to start working on.... bleh...
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