September 11th

I found this on the UNCW website, I think it was taken last year. 

Today is September the 11th,  a day that normally would have passed me by without too much impact on my daily routine other than a minutes silence, but here it seemed much closer to home.
The hour of the attack was about 8'o'clock so, shamefully, I was asleep at that moment but we had a really interesting Sociology of Deviance class as a result. We were talking about Moral Panics and the impact they had- 9/11 in particular. The main reason I'm blogging about this is because of some of the stories I heard from my class mates re the moral panic following 9/11. They went through it all, emergency evacuations, were told to regularly get under their desk as quickly as possible when yelled to do so and one girl explained that they were told they had to have clear back packs in class just in case they were disclosing any incriminating weapons. Madness!!

I also had my first exam today but luckily I think it went well,mostly because I had it fixed into my mind that i'd be in a big room for four hours writing essay after essay. The reality of the matter is that it was largely multiple choice/ true or false questions with a few short essay question at the end. So yeah, I'm quite happy. Fingers crossed they will all be like that! Also, the other thing I was going to say is you know that Study abroad in Wales talk I had? Well I've now had the same talk repeated four times. Yes, anyone would think they wanted to send me home!