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2002-05-05

I woke up that morning and started getting ready for school just like i had done every morning for the past few weeks. All of the sudden the phone rang and it was my mom. This was very weird for her to call in the morning since she really did not know my schedule and did not like to call just in case she would wake me up. She then told me what was going on and to turn on the television or radio. i finished getting ready for school unsure i fi should even go, but decided that it would probably be better then sitting around at home. i listened to the radio the entire way to school and was pretty much in shock still. i could not believe that this was happening.

When i had got to school i remember walking in and there where many students in Bodie hall watching a television to keep them updated. i went to my class where my teacher was very shaken up and she took attendance and then sent us down to a bigger classroom with a television so that we could all watch the news together. while watching the news one of the girls in my class started crying. apparently her mother had worked in one of the twin towers and she was very worried about the safety of her mom. that is when it really began to hit home for me.

i went straight home after class to wake up my boyfriend and inform him of everything going on around us. when i was telling him about it he thought that i was joking. he kept saying that there is no way anything like that would happen to our country. we then spent the rest of the afternoon watching the news and trying to get in contact with our friends to see how they where doing. later that night i had to go to work, which i was really not looking forward to. i work in a bar so i figured that it would probably be a pretty depressing night. i was right. many people came into the bar but mainly to have one or two drinks and watch the presidents speech that he was making that night.

it is weird to think that some day our kids and grandkids will be reading about this in there history books and i was actually alive to experience it. i have always heard my mom talk about where she was the day of JFK's assissination but i never really thought much about how she lived through a major event of our history. my main fear was that there was going to be a war and that my friends would have to go across seas and fight. i thought that if they where going to attack again that it migh tbe the Sears Tower which would then shake up my life style even more. it would make things so much more of a reality. my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones during this horrible tragedy.