story10393.xml
Title
story10393.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2004-01-29
911DA Story: Story
On the day of September 11, 2001 I was wearing my favorite purple dress. Like any other day I was at school, it seemed like a good day. I was unusually on time and I looked really cute that day. I went to my first period class and things went fine, little did I know what was really going on in the world.
The bell rang for me to go to my next class. As I was walking down the hall I saw my best friend with a panicked look on her face. She told me that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center buildings. At first I didn't believe her. Then I saw more people who were talking about it as I headed to my next class. Luckily my next class was government so he was letting us watch the news on T.V. For me it seemed like everything was in slow motion. As we were watching they were showing tapes of the second plane crashing into the second building. To me it still didn't seem real.
At the end of that class I was able to go home because I had early release. As I went to sign out at the attendance office I saw they needed help. The phones were ringing and kids were trying to call their parents. So I decided that I would stay and help. I stayed for about two hours and then when home. On my way home it was so quite outside.
Hardly any cars were on the road. I stopped by my house to check on my pets and they I headed to my sisters house were the rest of my family was. Their everyone was glued to the television with a look of terror on their faces. It still didn't seem real to me, everything was still in slow motion. I am one of those people that if I didn't see it, it didn't happen. So we watched the news all night and all day the next day wondering what was going to happen next.
The bell rang for me to go to my next class. As I was walking down the hall I saw my best friend with a panicked look on her face. She told me that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center buildings. At first I didn't believe her. Then I saw more people who were talking about it as I headed to my next class. Luckily my next class was government so he was letting us watch the news on T.V. For me it seemed like everything was in slow motion. As we were watching they were showing tapes of the second plane crashing into the second building. To me it still didn't seem real.
At the end of that class I was able to go home because I had early release. As I went to sign out at the attendance office I saw they needed help. The phones were ringing and kids were trying to call their parents. So I decided that I would stay and help. I stayed for about two hours and then when home. On my way home it was so quite outside.
Hardly any cars were on the road. I stopped by my house to check on my pets and they I headed to my sisters house were the rest of my family was. Their everyone was glued to the television with a look of terror on their faces. It still didn't seem real to me, everything was still in slow motion. I am one of those people that if I didn't see it, it didn't happen. So we watched the news all night and all day the next day wondering what was going to happen next.
Collection
Citation
“story10393.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 6, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/19624.