story9086.xml
Title
story9086.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-02-24
911DA Story: Story
Where Was I on September 11th, 2001
By the time, I had been living in California for a month and a half. I came to this country to learn English and I already was taking classes at Mt.SAC. Honestly, I did not do anything special that terrible day for the United States. I just can remember that I woke up at 6:30 am. Then I ate breakfast at 7:15 a.m. and later a friend took me to school. There, all the teachers looked so scared and worried. Actually even when they explained it to us, what had been happening in New York, I had not understood anything until. I got home early. We did not have normal classes that day and I could watch TV and finally listen to the news in my language.
I passed all the day watching TV, but I remember that since I heard such news, I had been trying to understand the feelings and reasons of both sides; I mean, the country that attacked and the country that was attacked. I called to my mother who was in my country to tell her that I was all right and I found out that she also had mixed feelings about those acts, because we were not agree about how people in the Middle East live and like other people that is not American we usually put the responsibility in the United States, and maybe that was the reason because that country attacked; however, we really realized that the terrorism is not the way to resolve the problems between nations. The people who died that day were not responsible about some injustice politics in the world and of course those acts had not resolve anything, instead they had created fear and chaos in the planet and sadly but eventually a war. I really hope do not have to see another thing like what it happened in New York on September 11th, 2001.
By the time, I had been living in California for a month and a half. I came to this country to learn English and I already was taking classes at Mt.SAC. Honestly, I did not do anything special that terrible day for the United States. I just can remember that I woke up at 6:30 am. Then I ate breakfast at 7:15 a.m. and later a friend took me to school. There, all the teachers looked so scared and worried. Actually even when they explained it to us, what had been happening in New York, I had not understood anything until. I got home early. We did not have normal classes that day and I could watch TV and finally listen to the news in my language.
I passed all the day watching TV, but I remember that since I heard such news, I had been trying to understand the feelings and reasons of both sides; I mean, the country that attacked and the country that was attacked. I called to my mother who was in my country to tell her that I was all right and I found out that she also had mixed feelings about those acts, because we were not agree about how people in the Middle East live and like other people that is not American we usually put the responsibility in the United States, and maybe that was the reason because that country attacked; however, we really realized that the terrorism is not the way to resolve the problems between nations. The people who died that day were not responsible about some injustice politics in the world and of course those acts had not resolve anything, instead they had created fear and chaos in the planet and sadly but eventually a war. I really hope do not have to see another thing like what it happened in New York on September 11th, 2001.
Collection
Citation
“story9086.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 21, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/18268.