Salut les z’amis !
La ville essaie de se réinventer
et quelques bâtiments étonnants ont vu le jour, une église en carton (construite
à proximité du lieu où l’effondrement d’un immeuble a couté la vie à plus d’une
centaine de personnes, pour symboliser la fragilité de l’existence et le
renouvellement permanent), et un mini centre commercial dans un assemblage de
conteneurs.
| Oeuvre commémorant les morts du tremblement de terre |
Hi guys !
A short article to say
few words about Christchurch where I spend the last few days. It should have
been a dynamic city before being touched by earthquakes in 2011. Those completely
destroyed half of the city, killing among 200 people.
It’s really impressive
to see that three years after the situation is still not coming back to normal,
there are still building half broken, entire places empty, no shops, no one…
The city is starting to be little by little rebuild but it’s taking a long
time. And seing the situation in a rich country made me wondering about the
situation in Haiti and all the others
places where important earthquakes happened and from where e heard about couple
of weeks before forgetting it.
In a more easy
subject, today Paige and I have been to the Akaroa peninsula. French people
established there a colony in the 1850’ and their descendants are still living
there. I don’t know if it’s really for the history or more the tourist
industry, but it was quite funny to see all those French flags, shops with
French names and a Gendarmerie instead of a Police station!

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