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A New Zealand teacher living amid the devastation of the China earthquake says he has no immediate plans to return home.
Jacob Daniels said classes at his school in the city of Mianyang had been suspended and would remain so for at least another week, but the timing was still uncertain.
About 500 senior students, aged 16 and 17, were sleeping in tents in the playground of the live-in school as they awaited their exams.
They were not allowed back into the school dormitories as they hadn't been declared safe, Mr Daniels said, but younger students had been sent home to their families.
One university nearby with some serious damage would be closed for three months but his own school wasn't badly damaged, he said.
The 35-year-old, from Masterton, said students were sleeping in tents and had "some pretty impressive shelters", though the weather was warm, sunny and dry.
He said there had been "a few sharp shocks" after the May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 34,000 people.
Some buildings in Mianyang, 125km from the quake's epicentre, were showing deep cracks but none had collapsed.
Many "refugees" were arriving from outlying areas, as Mianyang was an administrative district.
Mr Daniels said he would stay in China unless it became clear that the school would be closed for a long time.
