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story2605.xml

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2002-09-11

I did not find out about the attacks until I got to my first period class. No one in my zero hour class had known. I got to my class and everyone in the room next to us was watching TV. I went into our room and no one was there. A few minutes later the teacher walked in, and she asked me what I was doing. I told her I was just sitting and I asked where everyone was. She told me that they were watching the news. I asked her what they were watching and she said, don't you know what happened? No, I said back, I was so confused. Kristen, she said, two planes flew into the world trade center. She brought me into the room next door so I could watch the news with everyone else. We all just sat there and didn't say anything. There was nothing to say. We watched as both collapsed. We had two TVs in the room so we were watching two different channels and got to listen two newscasters. I eventually had to go to my next class in which we took a test and were listening to the news on the radio. Basically all day we listened to the news in our classes. Most teachers didn't teach anything new and many of them knew people that worked at the world trade center so they were really worried. Through out the day, my battery on my cell phone was dead, so I could not call my parents, but I knew that we know people that live in New York. My dad's best friend works across the street from where the trade centers were and luckily he was late to work that day. He got there right after the second plane hit. Other than that, I feel that the attacks didn't affect me as much as they affected people I know.