September 11,2001: How did you first hear about it?

[Cornflake Girl]

I was in a math class and a teacher interrupted and said (and I remember her exact words), "Two airplanes have crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, so you can expect to hear about that on the news when you get home." I find what she said really weird but then I guess it was so shocking no one really had any idea what to say. I was only 12 at the time so I only kind of half understood what had happened, and my teacher's words really didn't convey the magnitude of the event; it was only when I got home and started watching BBC news that I realised how catastrophic it was.