Joey to the world

Emilie inspired me to write my reflection of 10 years ago yesterday.  I am a day late on everything.

I was a senior in High School.  I think my dad was dropping me off for school and I remember being aware some plane had hit a tall building in New York.  My dad was making a big deal of it (because he had seen that building before and so to him it was real, but to me as a 17 year old kid it was…not as real).  I remember thinking, "stuff like this happens dad, it is no big deal."  Then when I got to school I had  a class with Mr. Orme and he had the TV on and we watched it for a while.  I realized then it was a bit more serious.  We sort of had class, but Mr Orme kept the TV on in the background the whole time. 

I think my next class was Yearbook, or something, because I remember talking to Mr Riley and he was freaking out.  He said he was leaving and headed down to his wife's classroom (she taught at the same school).  We worked on yearbook stuff by ourselves, but I remember needing to ask Mr Riley something so I went down to Mrs. Riley's room and I think they were listening to a radio.  I sat and listen for a moment.  Then on my way back I heard a classroom yelling about something and I popped my head in.  I think this is when the towers collapsed and I remember getting chills (and I just got them again as I typed that). 

My next class was in Mr. Watson's room (a class about computers, but I was the TA).  I remember he had a TV out and was watching everything the whole the whole class.  I was sitting there with a few other students talking about it.  I remember Mr Watson was kind of freaking out…saying stuff like "this might be the end of the world guys…maybe not today necessarily…but  this would start a war or something and then the world might end".  This scared me a little.

The whole day at school was strange.  The halls were quiet.  People were well behaved.  Their wasn't any joking going on.  I think everyone kind of knew this was a big deal.

When I got home my parents were both home just flipping through channels and so I just sat down and watched it the rest of the day.