Yes, I was in Boston while the
explosions. Yes, I am okay, and so is my family. I haven’t updated earlier
because I didn’t know what to say. I am chocked that anybody can do such thing!
My freinds have been asking me what happened to us, and here’s my story. Once
for all:
On Monday was Boston marathon,
which my dad was running. The hotel we stayed at was placed about 200-300 meters
away from the finishline. About 4 hours into the race two bombs exploded close
to the finishline. Thankfully my dad had already finished so we were all at the
hotel. We could still both hear and feel the explosions, and then we started to
hear sirens. After a little while a police officer came to our hotel room and
told us we had to evacuate the area. They had found a bomb at another hotel
close to us (and one more across the street.) We got ”thrown out” on the
streets without knowing anything. The only thing the police said was ”You have
to move it’s not safe here!” So we tried to stay away from crowds as we left
the city of Boston. My dad have friends who lives about half an hour outside
Boston and they came and picked us up. Since we didn’t hear anything from the
hotel about where we should sleep or when/if we could come back to the hotel we
slept at my dad’s friend’s. The next morning (Tuesday) we were allowed to get
back to the hotel and our belongings. There was police, FBI-agents, army and
press reporters in every streetcorner and sirens were heard every now and then.
It was pretty unpleasant to be there, but people seemed calm.
There’s so much to say about this,
I just don’t know how. It’s so different to see things happening on the news at
home. When I read my story I get the feeling that it was terrible. It wasn’t.
Almost everybody was calm. I wasn’t even close to being in real danger.
Compared to other people my experience is nothing.
At the same time it was the most
terrible thing ever. When you are there on the spot it is so much more real.
Too real. The knowledge that somewhere around you is a person capable of doing
this. You might have seen that person, maybe smiled at him/her ealier that day.
You don’t know. This person might be right behind you ready with another bomb.
That’s what was worse, not knowing. You couldn’t feel safe anywhere.
Now we have left Boston for NYC. Hopefully
our stay there will be less dramatic.
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