Christchurch

After starting my internship at AgResearch one of the first things I wanted to see was the city. AgResearch is a large government owned research company. The company has four branches, the one I am located is near Christchurch in Lincoln.

Four years ago the Christchurch area was hit by an earthquake, causing the city centre and lots of surroundings to be reduced to rubble. I thought that four years would be enough to remove the biggest signs of the disaster, but even though a lot of people told how happy they were that the city was open and a bit cleaned up, I could find several blocks which still looked the same as the day after the earthquake. The most known is the cathedral, which is shown on this picture. Although I normally would not gaze upon a church so long, since I see a lot of those back home, seeing a building like that in ruins however, made me stop and check it out. What a shame...