Rediscovering Christchurch on an Anniversary

4.35 am, Saturday September 4th 2010. It did something to everyone who was here – changed us all in some way. Everyone is different of course, no one shares the same degree or type of change as anyone else, but the fact that we have all been changed, tempered, influenced in some way by this event unites all of us. Those who were born and lived here all their lives, those who came here from elsewhere, those who have stayed, those who have now left, those who are just starting their lives and those who are nearing the end of it – we are all part of the same thing, the same process, the same overwhelming upheaval.

( We made it through a year )

Kia Kaha Canterbury – we made it through one year, we can make it through the rest.