Shake up in plans

I thought I might be travelling this weekend, but circumstances have changed and instead I'll be staying where I am. While it is disappointing that this has happened, it also demonstrated how easily plans have to change and also how much needs to be put in place for just one person to travel anywhere. I decided to take a nap this afternoon and was woken up quite violently by my bed shaking. Seeing as someone had told me that the house would shake if there was an explosion near by my first thought was to look out the window and see if I could see where the explosion was. I thought that I was alone in the house and wondered how I would find out what had happened. Thankfully, they were other people still around in the house and they informed me that I wasn't dreaming but had felt my first earthquake. I just googled and we had a 4.8 earthquake 23 miles east of Kabul. I must admit I am certainly experiencing firsts of things here. My first ever earthquake. Life is far from boring that's for sure.