re: Where were you on 9/11/01?

Two weeks into my freshman year at HS. Right about the time the first plane hit I was in the car heading to school and didn't hear anything about it.

The second plane probably hit right as my first hour art class was starting but nobody said anything about it.

Second hour speech class, one kid asked if we could turn on the TV. Teacher said no, let's focus on class and that was all. I still had no idea what was going on.

Third hour was science but the teacher had the TV on and that was the first time I'd seen or heard anything about the attacks. Teacher kept the TV on long enough for me to see one of the towers coming down. He then turned it off and we played a game where the whole class tries counting to 30, one student at a time, but unprompted, and if any two students tried to count the next number together we had to start over. By the end of class we were all hollering and laughing, trying to finish this stupid game, completely forgetting about what was transpiring. That was really cool the more I think about it.

Fourth hour, English. No TV. Teacher asked us to write an impromptu essay from the POV of someone in the towers as the plane hit. I thought it was pretty tasteless and refused to do it.

I don't remember much else from the rest of that day. Might've been sent home early, can't recall. But I was fixed to the TV for probably two more days after that.

Wild times.