September 11th: Where Were You?

[Wise]

I was a first-year teacher, teaching my 2nd day of school ever. I had to leave too early to get to school so I didn't turn on any tv and I rode the bus to school so I didn't hear any radio. When I go to school I ran into this really weird White dude in the copy room who taught computers (I already had figured he was on the spectrum).

Him: "You hear a plane crashed into the Twin Towers in New York?"

Me: "Nah, like some little plane?" (thinking of that single-seater that hit the White House a few years earlier and imagining it was some sort of accident)

Him: "No, a 747. Then 10 minutes later another one hit the other tower."

I just give him the and keep it moving because he's obviously making it up. Dude was weird.

Then I walk back to my room and on the way there I hear two teachers watching the TV in their room and it's reporting the whole thing. I was .

Didn't teach anything to the kids all day. I was lucky that there was a sub in the classroom as an assistant cause it was my first week, and he was actually a pastor. The kids just asked questions about whatever all day and we answered them best we could.

Majority of us could've been your students lol

you still teaching?

 

[MaxPain]

4th grade, had no idea what was going on

Got sent home early

 

[Professor Emeritus]

stalkers are wild

 

[TrillaThanMost]

Yup 248

My pops lived in Southfield 9 mile n lahser...right behind a bowling alley

 

[mannyrs13]

11th grade. The first plane hit when I was getting out of first period or between classes. I think that people were talking about it outside between classes. Had Spanish class second period and my teacher put the tv on. We saw the second plane hit and just watched the news for the rest of the class. Don't remember if we watched tv for the other two classes. But we likely did. I remember that day going to the local Winn Dixie after work to follow up on a job application or something like that, a job I got shortly after. We watched the news at home that evening. Crazy just thinking about it and how it's already been 17 years.

 

[JahFocus CS]

was taking a nap after smashing a big booty thot

 

[27FarOutRazor]

My pops lived in Southfield 9 mile n lahser...right behind a bowling alley

Plum hallow I think its called...down the street from some big as church... I been to the bowling alley but never actually been inside

 

[Luke Cage]

9th grade, sitting in class. Teacher turned on the news and everyone sat in shock watching as the second tower fell.

 

[ISO]

At home was sick and wasn’t going to school anyway

Vividly recall watching the news coverage and seeing the smoky towers even though I was very young

 

[thaKEAF]

I was in 8th grade. Grandma woke me up early for school and I decided to fake sick. She told me to go back to bed I was . Hours later my moms bust in and wakes me up saying she’s taking me to the doctor I get ready and go into the kitchen, I’ll never forget my grandma watching the news on her little black and white tv. Saw nothing but a large smoke cloud covering New York. In listening to what they are saying and I’m like cause I definitely never heard of the wtc or really understood terrorism.

We are on the way to the doctor and the local hip hop station is talking about it. Saying someone already claimed to be responsible. Get to the doctors office and it’s mad somber..I’m hearing adults making different claims of what’s going on. I remember the lady taking my blood asking me had I heard what was happening and how sad it was. At this point I remember feeling like the only kid out here with these grown ups during this crazy time - wishing I had went to school instead.

Moms left me in the car afterwards to get my medicine and at this point the hip hop station had switched to cbs news. They were interviewing someone and that’s the first time I heard the name Osama Bin Laden. Got home wanting to watch tv but every channel was either news reports or solid graphic screens saying god bless America or something similar.

Talked to my best friend and he made the school day sound exciting and chill as hell which made me again for not going. I just continued to watch the coverage and read about it on AOL. This definitely had the result they wanted..it reshaped the country and in a way stole some of the innocence that kids in our age range still had. Those images will never not be shocking and unreal to me and I am semi obsessed with anything related to that day. I just read an article about four black children who were on the planes three were on the way to a stem conference..one was only like two years younger than me at the time. I hope we don’t have another collective moment like that again.