Earthquake in Suzhou
May 14th, 2008 | by This is China! |I missed the earthquake in Suzhou this past Monday afternoon. I was in Hangzhou at the time, dozing in the front row while one of the other speakers was going about the China BPO industry (it was mid-day, after all). A friend of mine was climbing a nearby mountain at the time. No one I knew in Hangzhou felt a thing at the time.
One of the colleagues with whom I’d traveled to Hangzhou told me at the end of the conference that day that everyone in our office building had evacuated just a couple hours before. The building was swaying. One of our co-workers was in the men’s loo when the walls of the stall in which he had been comfortably situated began swaying and the water in the toilet bowls began sloshing. He said he began to feel ill with the disorientation and eventually figured out he should haul butt, as it were.
During the ride back to Suzhou from Hangzhou we would learn about the tragedy unfolding in the epicenter, near Chengdu, in Sichuan province. Our company, Asia Base, as a Danish company, is encouraging other Danish and European companies based in China to contribute to relief efforts in the area. Contact me for more details.Dezen-Shira is also promoting a fund “Care For Children Sichuan Earthquake Appeal”.
Please help.
