Tumbling Down

I hope everyone back home enjoyed their Monday off. I ended up having quite an eventful afternoon when the ceiling of our hostel room fell in!!!

I was sat on the chair you can see in the photo, just checking my emails and catching up on football news when I suddenly heard something fall over above me. I thought it sounded a bit odd because it sounded like it was really close (Not like when something falls over upstairs in your house and you know there's a fair bit of concrete or rafters between you and the floor above).

After that, I heard a few more things topple over in quick succession just before a pretty ominous cracking sound. I looked up and saw some of the wood decorating the ceiling come apart and things starting to fall through. It must have all happened in just a split second because I leapt from my seat and flung myself onto the bed to get out of the way.

I looked back and saw that where I was sat was covered in shattered glass (Including a now obliterated fish tank and mirror), ceramic tiles, wood and lots of dust. Small shards of glass even covered the far reaches of the room. This certainly woke Nads up from her nap and luckily I only had a very small cut on my arm.

[Apologies for the photo being a bit blurry. There was a lot of dust in the air and it was taken very quickly as the hotel staff had just started to clear up and after we had to move some of the debris to actually get out the room]