[LaLaLand]

Everyone says they remember where they were/what they were doing when they heard/saw the events of 9/11 15 years ago today.

So, what were you doing?

I was in my first week of Secondary School and me and my friend got off the school bus early to go back to our Junior School as our Year 6 class photographs had arrived late (after the Summer hols) and we needed to collect them.

I remember in the background whilst we were there talking to our old teacher that another teacher was on the phone saying "yeah and they've flown them into the skyscrapers!!". Didn't twig at the time me and my friend just kind of looked at each other strange.

Then I got home and saw exactly what was going on on TV. Awful.

[Saph]

I would've just started Year 2

[Mokka]

I was at home on maternity leave with my daughter who was just around 6 months old. She was actually letting me sleep in for once...so I was awoken by my mother in law on the phone freaking out and telling me to turn on the TV to see what was happening... I was very groggy and confused for a few minutes I remember... and then just shocked and shook. Spent the day glued to the TV and watching the events unfold.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Was getting ready and I thought it was a trailer for a new movie

[Shaun]

We must've been let out of school early for some reason because I'm sure I managed to get home and watch the second tower collapse but that would've been 3:28pm our time... we didn't usually finish school 'til 3:50pm

But I do remember hearing about it on the radio on the way home and then watching it.

[Rob!]

The bizarre thing was that we'd had a school trip to Washington earlier in the year and I'd actually been in the Pentagon. I was just leaving school and my history teacher was talking about it as I passed him. It was 3:30 so I didn't give a ****e about anything that was happening other than me getting home so I didn't really pay attention. I walked in and the first thing my mum said to me was "Have you seen the news??" I sat down and watched it all completely dumbfounded that evil like that existed.

[T*]

I was 1 so I can't remember a smidge

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Saph

I would've just started Year 2

Originally Posted by Tom*

I was 1 so I can't remember a smidge

Well I feel VERY old

[T*]

okay

[Saph]

I was streaming Glitter online

[Maru]

I'll copy and paste what I put in the chat thread...

I was in the school web design club in high school when it happened... was on an IRC channel I frequented and we had TV's in the classroom so saw the whole thing live... kinda freaked out for friends in NY who were freaking out about not being able to get ahold of loved ones who were in that area. The US hasn't been the same since...

Spent the rest of the day listening to the intercom sitting in class doing absolutely nothing because so many parents were coming to pick up their kids non-stop.

[LukeB]

I remember getting a nose cauterization on that day.

[Jordan.]

I got home from school and my mum had it on the TV and she made me go straight up stairs so I couldn't see it

[Kyle]

Came home from school to find my mum and dad had the TV on watching the coverage.

[armand.kay]

I was in Zimbabwe on holiday.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

I got home from school and my mum had it on the TV and she made me go straight up stairs so I couldn't see it

..it was really difficult at school with primary age children to know how much to talk about it, you know...in terms of respect and in assembly etc and you must have been very young as well, Jordan...

[Cal.]

I was in Fuerteventura

[Josy]

I was doing my housework, dusting a photograph.

[smudgie]

I was at the front door letting a friend in when my dad shouted out, we rushed in to see what the fuss was about.
My friend thought it was an accident..dad and I didn't, the second plane confirmed it.

[Livia]

At first, I thought it was London's World Trade Centre and I was really worried for my friend Connie who worked there... then I saw it was NY. What a dreadful day it was...

[Will.]

I had just turned 2 so can't remember a thing.

[Firewire]

I was 6 but I don't remember it at all

I must've been shielded from the news

I would've been at school though

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Saph

I was streaming Glitter online

Gary Glitter?

[Smithy]

I was on holiday in Gran Canaria say by the pool, I remember my dad coming and saying there was a film on at the bar with planes crashing into towers

[joeysteele]

I was 9, at school, the head told us about this just as school was finishing for the day.