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2002-06-07

My day on September 11

September 11, 2002 was just like any other day; I woke up for school around 6:30 am. I got up and got dressed, finished getting ready and then my sister was in the car waiting for me. We left for school at around 7:30am and stopped at the store first to get our usual breakfast sandwiches. When I got to school it was like any other day I talked in the hall with all my friends about the latest gossip. Then when the warning bell rang Jill, Kristen and I walked my friend Jessica to her class like we do every morning. After that Kristen and I went to our first period class, which is gym so were allowed to be a little late. We hung out in the hall for a couple more minutes. Gym class is pretty cool for us
because our teacher lets us do pretty much whatever we want to do. That day we played volleyball, which is cool because Kristen and I are really good at it. Also, in our class we have a lot of people play and its really fun. After gym, I went to my second period class, which is Global. In my 9th grade Global class, we had just started learning about the Taliban and life in Afghanistan. All of a sudden Mr. Upton another global teacher came running in our classroom and was telling us to hurry up and turn on the television. So my teacher Mrs. Capen turned on the television and we all saw the twin towers. One of them was on fire and people everywhere were yelling and running around panic stricken. As we were all watching, all of a sudden, another plane came flying around and crashed right into the other tower. We all sat there staring at the television in amazement and shock not knowing what was happening. At first I thought that our teacher Mrs. Capen was playing a big trick on us because we had just started learning about the Taliban, terrorism and Osama Bin Laden. I realized after a minute when everyone was freaking out that it was not a joke and that it was for real. I was in complete shock and did not know what to think. We saw people everywhere running around screaming. Little fires and explosions were happening everywhere. Everyone was running and ducking from all the things flying in the air even the reporters were ducking behind cars.
The rest of the day was very hectic; televisions were on in every classroom. Walking down the halls all you could hear were the televisions on the news and people talking about the Twin Towers and the crash. Everyone was in complete shock. In every class we would just watch the news. No one was teaching a normal class. There were rumors going around that we were going to be sent home because we have a power plant right next to us that power generates a lot for New York City, we were worried that they might try to blow the power plant up. The principle kept us in school, everyone even the teachers had to leave right at 2:18 though. Everything was canceled sports, clubs, and any meetings that day. All the talk in lunch was about what was happening. Even the televisions in the lunchroom were all on. Everyone in lunch was worried about many different things. My one friend Jade was worried because her dad works in the power plant and it was in threat of getting bombed or hit so everyone was freaking out and very worried. All of us play sports and all of our games were canceled. We had a big volley ball game that day and my friends had a big field hockey game and they all had to be rescheduled for a new day because we all had to go home. When I got home all the televisions in the house were on the new and that is all we watched all night. This experience for me was strange; I mean you always hear about this stuff happening in other countries I never thought something like this would happen here. I also never thought it would happen during my lifetime, but I knew it could and it did.