11 M
As you may expect I wasn´t planning to write today but today's events have meant otherwise. Thanks for your concern, and fortunately I am ok, and have survived this, the worse bombing on Spanish, if not European soil, more or less unscathed.Two and a half years ago I was in the cinema at the time of the Twin Towers attacks, and only found out through an overzealous text message (WW3 is about to start!) what was going on. And again this morning I went to work knowing nothing about it until my student asked me if I knew what was going on.
There is obvoiusly great indignation about what has happened, and immese solidarity: the queues to donate blood have been enormous, so much so that the Red Cross have made an official statement saying that they don't need any more...
There was also a sense of normality about the way many people have been going about there lives trying to understand why. I don't know if this normality came from them having accepted it or that it hasn't sunk in yet. Certainly for me- I've only seen TV images, rather than actually been to the site- this doesn't seem any further away than New York, and yet I was less than a mile from where it all happened and have been through that station hundreds of times.
As ever in these situtions there are lots of escape stories, people who overslept, etc and also today was planned to be a student strike meaning that many of the students who would have been on that train were still in bed.
Well, I'm sure I don't need to give you any more details as the news has already done the rounds, but let's just say that 11 (that day again) March 2004 will not be easy to forget for many people.
Hope you are all well, wherever you are...
Un abrazo muy fuerte
posted by SG @ 2:29 p. m.
