story8240.xml

story8240.xml

born-digital

story

yes

no

2002-10-02

When i woke up on September 11, 2001, I had no clue of what was going on. I drove to school and sat in my car waiting for the bell to ring for first period. I was listening to the radio and heard some commotion about something happening in New York but i changed the station to listen to music instead. When i finally walked into my first period, the televison was on and my teacher was watching. Everyone was kind of confused as to what was going on but it all came together quickly when we saw the replay of the towers falling. I was in shock as my teacher talked to us about how important this was and how this was going to be something we'd remember forever. None of us really understood the impact of what was going on. When i walked out of first period and walked to my second i thought of what this meant. I have family living in New York and people i knew that worked there. I all the sudden became frantic and ran to my car to call my mom. By then i was uncontrollably crying and the thought that i might have lost someone i loved in such a horrific accurance made me crazy. My mom hadn't been able to get a hold of anyone back east so we were all frantic with worry. I could hardly bare sitting in every class holding back tears that often times just came out. When i came home i ran and hugged my parents and just sat there and cried with my mom. We all watched t.v. with amazment that this could really happen. We finally got a hold of family members back east and found out that thankfully everyone was ok. We did know someone that was in the towers but she did make it out ok. It was hard for my family and me to overcome the shock of it all, and to tell you the truth i don't think we ever fully will.