In bed in London with Flu.  I was supposed to have been in Minneapolis but couldn't fly due to illness.  As a result it was only later in the day, when I blearily got out of bed, that I caught up on all that was happening.  Probably one of the most surreal days of my life - as if I'd been asleep and woke up to find the world had changed around me.

Exactly the same here.

I was storing some wood for the winter by my dad's request. I was 18 and about to start my 2nd year of my first course at college. It was around half past 1 pm that I was feeling a bit tired and thirsty so I went inside and turned on the TV.

And as the TV turned on, the second plane hit the South Tower. My mouth turned into a gaping hole and I sat there for the rest of the afternoon watching it unfold.

I also was in high school when a teacher told us about it

I was a middle schooler in English class when someone came in and said planes hit towers in New York.  To tell ya the truth, had never heard of the towers and when I heard it was terrorists... I had no clue what they were haha.  My memory is not that great, so I don't remember too much about it, but I do remember my mother being extremely upset... especially after learning one had hit the Pentagon as a family member worked there.  

The days following, though, were weird as I remember them clearly.  Had never seen so many people (even kids) who just seemed so lost in about everything.  I mean we were 11 and 12 and for the most part innocence was still there, but I think in a way that kinda broke it as we learned what happens in the world outside of our little classroom. 

Sophomore year of college.

That was the morning I didn't have morning classes so I slept in.  One of the guys I shared the apartment with (always wierd to say roommate since we didn't share rooms) opened the door to my room and said something big was happening, terrorist attacked the world trade center.  I thought to myself I've seen bombings on Tv before, whatever and went back to sleep.

Hours later I get to campus and I notice crowds of people around a TV in one of the common areas and finally saw what happened.  Man, I felt like a jackass.  Oh well.

college, my roomate had put on the TV cause of the first plane... saw the second one and all the rest.

spent my time calling my sis in NY and my cousin working in the building right next to it.

Turns out my sis was supposed to go shopping in the twin towers but as usual woke up very late.

My cousin though had to evacuate her building.

(and a friend who worked in an upper floor actually arrived late to work... you know us french people...)

spent the afternoon talking conspiracy theory (thought it was the chinese for bombing the embasy in serbia at one point) and played a ton of counter strike (cop side :p)

I was just about to go to bed when it came on the late night news.  The first plane had hit and as everyone in the media was trying to figure out what happened, the second plane hit.  I stayed up for a few more hours until I had to go to bed.

I went to work the following day, which at that time was in an acute care psychiatric ward, only to have several of the manic patients with delusions of omnipotence, try to take claim for the disaster.  Crazy people are crazy.

I was in Longmont, Colorado on my mission for the Mormon church.  I can remember my companion receiving a phone call from our Zone Leader letting us know that there was an accident and that an airplane crashed in one of the towers of the WTC.  We didn't know at that time that it was a terrorist attack.  We weren't allowed to watch tv on our mission, but there was a public entertainment room in the apartment complex we lived in and we spent most of the day watching what happened.  Unfortunately, it still effects me today, especially when I see video of the planes crashing into the buildings :(.  What a tragic day indeed. 

7th grade, I remember it was recess and thats all us 7th graders could talk about...

RIP to those who died on that day