So...
Posted on September 11, 2002 @ 09:45 in General
A lot has happened in the past year and a lot didn't happen after all. A year ago I was in a conference that was held here in Amsterdam. After the last afternoon session one of the organisers came to the podium and announced that planes had hit the WTC. I guess that was about an hour after it had actually happened. A couple of people freaked, because they had partners flying into NY that day or because they lived there themselves. Apparently there was only one place in the whole building where we could watch tv, so we all huddled up in a really small storage room next to the conference room. We stood amidst folding chairs, spare furniture, boxes with cables and mikes, remote controls and videos stacked up on shelves and we watched the crashes unfold on tv, many times over, from many angles, in many different slow motion replays. The tv only had Dutch channels, so the four or five Dutch people started to translate for the four or five people nearest to them. It quickly got hot in that small room. It seemed all so surreal.
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