Historical Moments

921 earthquake was one of the deadliest earthquake that hit Taiwan. I was only three years old when this disaster happened. I woke up in the middle of the night, crying, and ran to my parents room. My mother asked me what happened but I didn't reply. She thought that I had a nightmare, so she hold me in her arms, trying to make me fall back into sleep. After a few minutes later, the house started to shake. "Earthquake!" my mother yelled. My father quickly ran to my sister's room, checking if she was alright. Luckily, Hsinchu was not the epicenter, no one in our community got hurt or injured. I always remember my mother telling me that I am a detector, waking up before the earthquake.  The presidential election occurs every four years. When I was in second grade, it was also the year of presidential election. Even thought we were only about eight years old, but we kind of understood what was happening that year. Seeing flags and papers about presidential election, this election started to get into our class. There was one day, two of my classmates got into a fight. One one them shouted something that shocked the teacher. He said something about that the other student was a member of one of the two parties, that was why he was a bad person. As a child, I didn't understand this political things and why people are so intense about it.