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<blockquote data-quote="ninthcouncil" data-source="post: 363000" data-attributes="member: 2566"><p>This time last year, I and my partner were out of Britain, having just started our 3-month "last big adventure before thinking about having children", to China, Nepal and Japan. After a few days exploring Beijing independently, we joined our China tour group on the evening of Sep 11. Because of the time difference, we went to bed that night unaware that anything had happened. Next morning, we bumped into some of the others in the corridor and overheard a rather garbled version of what had happened, before the tour leader appeared and ushered us into his room, where he had his laptop linked to the internet, showing recordings of the second plane hitting the WTC.... Most of the group were British, Irish and Australian, but there were also a Canadians couple, and they had a cousin who worked in the WTC. After some frantic calling, complicated by the time zones, they established that he had not yet arrived at work when the first plane hit, so had not been harmed.</p><p></p><p>The next few days were a bit unreal; we were thousands of miles away, trying to do the tourist things, but worrying that all hell was about to break loose back home. We could get the basic details off Channel 9, the English language news on Chinese state TV (none of the hotels we stayed at had CNN), but it didn't give much feel of how things actually were in the US or Britain at the time. I had a little short-wave receiver with me, and could therefore get a bit of BBC World Service, and it sounded like everyone was extremely paranoid, and expected London to get hit at any moment. We felt rather guilty to think that we were in possibly the safest imaginable place if things did escalate - after all, the Chinese would never get involved, would they?</p><p></p><p>In China, foreigners always get approached by people who want to practice their English, and of course 9/11 was the major topic of conversation, so we couldn't get away from it even there....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ninthcouncil, post: 363000, member: 2566"] This time last year, I and my partner were out of Britain, having just started our 3-month "last big adventure before thinking about having children", to China, Nepal and Japan. After a few days exploring Beijing independently, we joined our China tour group on the evening of Sep 11. Because of the time difference, we went to bed that night unaware that anything had happened. Next morning, we bumped into some of the others in the corridor and overheard a rather garbled version of what had happened, before the tour leader appeared and ushered us into his room, where he had his laptop linked to the internet, showing recordings of the second plane hitting the WTC.... Most of the group were British, Irish and Australian, but there were also a Canadians couple, and they had a cousin who worked in the WTC. After some frantic calling, complicated by the time zones, they established that he had not yet arrived at work when the first plane hit, so had not been harmed. The next few days were a bit unreal; we were thousands of miles away, trying to do the tourist things, but worrying that all hell was about to break loose back home. We could get the basic details off Channel 9, the English language news on Chinese state TV (none of the hotels we stayed at had CNN), but it didn't give much feel of how things actually were in the US or Britain at the time. I had a little short-wave receiver with me, and could therefore get a bit of BBC World Service, and it sounded like everyone was extremely paranoid, and expected London to get hit at any moment. We felt rather guilty to think that we were in possibly the safest imaginable place if things did escalate - after all, the Chinese would never get involved, would they? In China, foreigners always get approached by people who want to practice their English, and of course 9/11 was the major topic of conversation, so we couldn't get away from it even there.... [/QUOTE]
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