When I heard of it, I think I was in french class before it was starting, someone just mentioned that some people killed themselves to crash a plane in the World Trade Center, but I did not know what the WTC was and did not think of how big this plane was, I was more imagining some dumb guy showing off with a small air plane and maybe killing himself and damaging a few windows.
But I kept thinking about it, and as I heard more people talk about it, I knew it was much worse. For some reason what I remember the clearest is that I was in AutoCAD class (we were doing paper drafting at the time before we start using AutoCAD. We were working on 1 point perspective, where you place 1 point and everything sort of goes to it, to make it look 3D. I was making a... building, a house, but still a building. (it's what we had to do, we had started the day before). I kept thinking about the terrorist attacks, at the time I did not know why caused it, had no exact knowledge of what was going on, did not know where it was etc. I actually thought the pentagon and the WTC was the same building. But the more I thought of it, the more I was thinking that it was not something "just on the news".
I got home, and went straight to the TV to check the listings to see if I can get a news channel, but I did not need to flip any channel to see the news, it was on every station, even kids stations were canceled. I watched it non stop, and when my parants got home we also watched it non stop. For about a week.
I can still remember everything, I even remember walking from AutoCAD class (my last course of the day) to go to my locker.
I think I must of watched the war on Afghanistan for at least a few months. Not non stop, but quite often I'd turn it on CNN.
This affected me a lot simply by knowing how horrible and breaking it was, and I can just imagine how much worse it is for Americans and more speficicly people who live in NYC, and that have lost loved ones!
The day after sept 11th was strange as the airports were re-opened, and I looked in the sky and saw like 10 lines crossing each other because delayed flights where going all over. And it seemed everytime we'd hear a plane we'd be looking outside and it seemed to be lower than usual. It's a mental thing.
So what's everyone else's stories? Would be interesting to hear.
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Our art teacher told us during practice, but I didn't completely realise it until third period because I had a hard time understand my art teacher. I just remember her saying something about planes and New York City. Third period was English. We had a substitute. That was good because it meant that we wouldn't have much work. I don't think we would have had work anyway since our teacher would have put it off in favour of such breaking news. 
