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In 1999, I lived in Venezuela for a couple of months to study Spanish. I had been taking classes at college, and this was a great opportunity to go somewhere new. I came back to San Diego to finish my degree. While researching what to do after graduation, I came across a program teaching English in Israel while working on my masters degree. At that time, it looked like we were going to have peace in the Middle East . It seemed like a good time to go. By the time June 2001 rolled around, circumstances made my return for a second year in Israel unworkable. I spent a month that summer at the University of Liverpool where I worked on my masters degree. Then I headed back to the U.S. I was still uncertain about where I would go, but was fairly certain it would not be Israel . I looked for a different teaching opportunity, and ended up getting a job at Skola Lang - an English Language school in a city named Kedzierzyn-Kozle in south-western Poland . On the way back to Europe . I stopped in New York to visit family. Because I would not be returning to Israel , I also wanted to close out the bank account I had there. There was a branch where I was able to do this in the financial district in New York . It was September 4, 2001. My morning consisted of bagels, public transit, and a lot of paper work. Having finished doing business, it was time to play. I headed over to the World Trade Towers and up to the observation decks. The Towers were all that I had heard about. I didn't realize there was actually a complex of seven buildings. The complex had beendesigned by Minoru Yamasaki. There was also a massive shopping concourse underground. Most impressive on the ground level was an inner courtyard which was modeled after the square of Saint Marks in Venice. I loved the complex. It was at once serene and energetic. The open spaces flanked by these spires wrapped in steel with their narrow windows. This was a beautiful space. My goal, however, was to go up. At the top of Tower One was an elegant restaurant called Windows. At the top of Tower Two was an observation deck. The bagel was tiding me over nicely, so I headed to the outside observation deck. It was impressive. There were murals showing a history of New York . As you looked out over the city, kiosks at the perimeter helped a tourist like myself to figure out what I was looking down on. That evening I visited with love ones. I finished packing whatever needed packing. I confirmed my shuttle to the airport, and the flights the next day. I landed in Warsaw on September 6, 2001, and then took a short flight to Krakow where my Roman met me. He and his wife would be my employers for the next year. They would be my primary way of getting the Polish world translated into English if I ran into difficulty. Roman drove me back to Kedzierzyn-Kozle and helped me get my things to my third floor apartment. I was to spend the next year living in old Soviet Block Housing. There was an old television, but it only received over-the-air stations and none of those were in English. I never turned it on. I had a phone, but did want to make international calls, and had no one in Poland to call. I had found a place to email folks that I had arrived safely by the time the morning of September 7, 2001 rolled around. The next few days were spent preparing for the opening of classes. My boss took me to get a photo, to get my i.d., to help get a bank account established. We worked through the weekend. School would start on Wednesday September 13, 2001. There was a lot to accomplish before then. I had spent the morning of September 11, 2001 working with our school's lead teacher. He went over the books and resources we had available. He took us out for a traditional Polish meal. It rained that day. In fact, it rained everyday for the first 30 days I was in Poland . It was not all day, but enough to remind me that I was no longer in the desert of Israel or Southern California . When we broke up, I went exploring my new town. I found a great open air market, a really bad Mexican restaurant, the movie theaters, the public swimming pool and a number of other places that would become my regular haunts in the next year. I barely got into my apartment that afternoon when the phone rang. It was about 5:30 p.m. I was unsure who would be calling me. I had not yet given anyone my phone number. I picked up, and there was a panicked voice on the other end. "The United States is under attack! Do you want to come watch BBC on our t.v.?" It was Roman. My first thought was he was joking, but I knew from the tone of his voice he was not. Roman was at my door by 6 p.m. and I was at his house by 6:30 p.m. Poland is 6 hours ahead of New York time. In my mind, I remember getting to his house just in time to see the second tower fall. In retrospect, I know that tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m. New York time. That would have been 4:28 p.m. in Poland . I could not have seen it happen, but no doubt saw it being repeated on the broadcast. I would spend the next three hours glued to the television except for the few moments when I was able to borrow Roman's phone and contact family to make sure everyone was okay. I eventually was able to break away from the television. The year in Israel had served me well in one regard. I had learned that news organizations that had to report continually would talk without providing new information, often providing only speculation on what had happened. I also learned to recognize that news organizations would repeat the same graphic images over and over again. I knew as I watched the coverage on BBC and CNN that the newscasters had nothing new to report. They were simply obligated to keep talking. I went to bed that night exhausted from the emotions of the evening. I woke up on September 12, 2001still unsure of what had transpired. I jumped on the internet. It was 6 a.m. in Poland - midnight in NY. There was still lots of speculation about what had happened, but no real information. There were lots of personal stories coming out. I heard lots of tales of not only of destruction and death, but of the fear people felt. I felt no fear at that moment. I felt no fear for I had already confirmed that those I knew were well. I also knew that I was in a part of the world that was not a tourist locale. I was a two hour train trip from the nearest city that might qualify as a tourist attraction. If someone was out to get Americans, they were not going to come to Kedzierzyn-Kozle to find just me. I followed the news via the internet in the coming weeks. No video clips, just reading news sites. I talked to people in the U.S. They sent me copies of newspapers, issues of news magazines dedicated to the Twin Towers. My Polish students were curious. I was their connection to what people were feeling in the U.S. I only had a vague sense of what people were feeling. I had friends and family who lived in major cities - Los Angeles, New York, Houston and Dallas. There were loved ones near military bases in San Diego and Pensacola. There were people living near tourist destinations like Disneyland and Graceland. Everyone was afraid. Media and government promoted fear among Americans. I grew sad at the news, but I never grew afraid. I trusted people as I always had. I realized when I returned to the United States the next year how very different my life had been. I had escaped not only the fear of the moment, but the ongoing experience of 9/11 that others had. The images of 9/11 burned themselves into my memory as I watched them over and over. The media would not let me escape those issues. The image, however, that most moved me was one that was only in my mind - the image of the city of New York spreading beneath me as I looked at it from the observation deck of a building that had ceased to be. |
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