Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11/2001?

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Obviamente. It's hard not to remember it.

I was in Riyadh (yawn) and I came out of the kitchen where I had been finishing up homework (it was 16:03 in Riyadh when the second plane hit, and school finished at 14:40 then), I think, and my mom was, as usual, switching on the TV while I started playing with something. And the coverage on CNN was still of the first plane, which we thought to be some stupid Cessna pilot. Like one minute later, the second plane hit. We knew something was wrong, and my mom called my dad at his office and told him about what had happened, and he also told his Iranian-American 'boss' and his Saudi co-workers, who, IIRC, were also equally shocked and probably more pissed off than we were. I think one of them called the hijackers bastards or the like. That night, Meet the Teacher Night was cancelled and everybody overreacted on September 12 and we ended up being like 5 in class and watched movies.

Of course, my memories of May 12 2003 are much clearer and detailed than 9/11. Partly because it was in my neck of the woods and I was slightly older.

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In a way, it would have been funny to see the reaction of my old school in Riyadh if the attacks had been announced to us while in school.

They told us about some random bombing of the Saudi security building in 2004, I think it was, but by then bombings were usual and everybody was happy that it was Wednesday.

2004 was a damn crazy year in Riyadh, sh**t.

I also remember my teacher wanting to turn on the news in the afternoon to check to see if the malls were going to be open. She wanted to buy new shoes later.

Winner.