September 11

I woke up this morning and as I laid in bed I thought about what I was doing on September 11 2001. I was in Lansing because I had just graduated that summer and started a job with Bethany. As a future Foster Care worker I had to go through three months of state training through the DHS. I was in down town lansing at the DHS headquarters sitting in training when my training person got a call on her cell phone. She allowed us to go on break and then turned on the tv in the classroom...after our break we were forced to turn off the tv and where told that the building, since it was a government building, was locked down and no one could leave or get in. Sigh. Finally after a long and confusing day where none of us learned anything, I went back to my hotel and turned on the TV. I called my dad because I was frightened and wanted to know what all of this meant...war? What kind of war? I also have a cousin who worked at the pentagon at the time. I then called Paul ( who I was engaged too) and he had heard from his sister Angela who was living in NY at the time. With everything and everyone accounted for and safe, we watched it on the tv together for the rest of the night. Where were you?