September 11th... My Story. :)

I never got to my September 11th post yesterday, sorry about that. It is now September 12th.

I fell asleep for part of the day yesterday and completely forgot I was going to write it. I also got distracted by a church meeting I was supposed to go to and completely forgot, I wasn’t ready to go and I had to miss it and that totally took my thoughts elsewhere.  Yesterday I just spent most of the day rememiscing in the past and watching youtube videos. I’ll tell you my story from that day. 

It was 10 days before the end of summer on September 11th. I was sleeping when my mom came into my room, turned on my light, and gave me the news. “A Jet has just hit one of the twin towers.” , she said. I was still in a sleepy daze but I heard what she said, even though I did not completely register the seriousness. I stumbled out of bed got my clothes on and went upstairs. I watched the TV with awe, I did not really get what was going on but it looked serious. I started to get ready for school, went along with my day as I usually did before school. Not to long after I woke up though, and started to go about my day as normal after seeing it the 2nd plane hit (according the the video i am watching right now it was at 7:03am, so not very much time had passed since I left the TV. I was still a little un serious about it at that time. I was not accustomed to things like this happening, at least not to my knowledge, I was very innocent at the time.  I just stood there at the TV an watched for a while not knowing what to think about it.

I went to school as usual after these events, everyone was buzzing about it. I just sort of dismissed it and went along to my classes.

It wasn’t until lunch, about 12 noon that I was caught up with the news. I had heard rumors like the towers had fallen, and the pentagon was hit and stuff like that but I never really got to see for myself, until lunch that is. 

I wasn’t really scared at all, just surprised, and a little shocked. I’m pretty sure if I had been a bit older I would have been a little scared, but being young I was more curious than anything else. I sat on top of one of the lunch tables and just watched the TV for the whole lunch period, completely glued to it. I found it very exciting. 

I should probably add that that day was the first day I had ever heard of Islam as well. It’s been an interesting 9 years since then. I find it to be a very interesting religion, but unlike a lot of people I do not hate Muslims, nor do I think they are all bad. Some of them are misled however, not all of the though. I am not one to condemn a whole religion just because of a few mistakes made by a few people.

Anyway, they had the news and stuff broadcasting in the classrooms through out the school day. Most of the time the sound was just turned down, or completely off, and some classrooms we watched the news for a few minutes and then went about our day.

I couldn't’t wait to get home. I wanted to just watch everything that was happening that day.

When I got home I spent a large amount of time just watching the TV. in fact I’m pretty sure besides a bit of homework, that was the only thing that occupied my time that day. I didn’t want to miss a thing.

Yeah, so that was an interesting day. I wish I had a bit more detail but it was 9 years ago, and memories fade. I guess this will have to do though.

Oh and for the record I started typing this on September 12th, but got a bit lazy. it is now September 14th.  :p