2011-09-11, 04:12 PM
In 8th grade, my school in Juarez, Mexico was next to the US Consulate. I don't remember the exact time we were evacuated from the school, it was still pretty early, like 8 or 9 AM, school started at 7:30 AM. They told us that there might be an attack on the US Consulate, rumors said there was a bomb in the Consulate.
I remember wanting to call my mom from one of the public phones near the school, but they were all crowded, since all of the students wanted to call their parents. My house wasn't that far away, so I started to walking away from the school, because I didn't want to get blown up in case of bomb. My neighbor and her friend caught up to me and also walked home. Two miles later of hearing there complaints and tolerating the heat, I got home. I had to wait a couple of minutes because my mom was taking a shower, after a while she opened the door and looked at me surprised, she did not know what was going on.
I told her that we were evacuated because there might be a bomb in the US Consulate, she turned on the TV to see what the news were and that's when I first knew what was going on, I saw the same image most of you guys saw, the two towers burning, the replay of the second plane crashing and then, after a while the towers falling, updates on other planes, etc.
It was shocking and I was really afraid of going back to school, because of the US Consulate, but after a while, it died down and life went back to normal, at least for me. But that whole week was just so different, I remember seeing every day the news, rescue teams looking for survivors.
I remember wanting to call my mom from one of the public phones near the school, but they were all crowded, since all of the students wanted to call their parents. My house wasn't that far away, so I started to walking away from the school, because I didn't want to get blown up in case of bomb. My neighbor and her friend caught up to me and also walked home. Two miles later of hearing there complaints and tolerating the heat, I got home. I had to wait a couple of minutes because my mom was taking a shower, after a while she opened the door and looked at me surprised, she did not know what was going on.
I told her that we were evacuated because there might be a bomb in the US Consulate, she turned on the TV to see what the news were and that's when I first knew what was going on, I saw the same image most of you guys saw, the two towers burning, the replay of the second plane crashing and then, after a while the towers falling, updates on other planes, etc.
It was shocking and I was really afraid of going back to school, because of the US Consulate, but after a while, it died down and life went back to normal, at least for me. But that whole week was just so different, I remember seeing every day the news, rescue teams looking for survivors.