Hey all,

I'm just dropping you all a note to let you know that Adrian and I are Ok after the quake that hit the island yesterday.

Adrian and I were in the mountains when it hit. We were walking through a parking lot when all of a sudden I felt really dizzy. I couldn't figure out what was happening. Walking felt like being in one of those fun houses at the Stampede where the floor moves/

Then I heard the rattling dishes and screams. It was totally right out of a movie.

That's when I realized it was an earthquake. Up until yesterday the strongest one I felt was a mild tremor while I was on the couch watching TV. But this one was a biggie. 6.8 on the richter scale

Looking around the ground was literally heaving and wavy. Because of this I wasn't ever really scared. A little nervous yes, but i was too busy looking around at everything shaking that it didn't scare me too much.

The cars were rocking quite a bit, and the electrical wires were shaking. The shaking wasn't like a vibration, it was more of a gently rocking. So I guess that is another reason why it didn't freak me out. It wasn't violent like I thought an earthquake would be.

Sorry I didn't let you all know earlier that I was OK. I honestly didn't think the news would make it to Canada. But I guess this is a fairly big incident.

So far 5 people are dead and 170 are injured.

The news reports have been slightly entertaining on the matter. One reported it straight-faced with footage of the actual quake. Another had this really bad traumatic music and they showed all the wreckage in Taipei. Making it seem like the end of a bad b-movie. Another channel didn't have any real footage yet so they just had the camera man shake the camera side to side to show what it might have looked like.

So that was my first real earthquake. I hope it will be my last, but it probably won't be. Don't worry too much about me. I am safe and OK.