3-29-10; 5:34 PM
This morning started off OK -- actually, I hardly slept at all last night. = O-o = I was so sore that even my blankets sitting on me hurt! I couldn't turn over without it hurting/being a big strain to lift the blankets so that I could move! (It was kind of pathetic… There are only 2 small/medium comforters and a thin top blanket! (I added the second comforter because normally I'm chilly in this room.) By 4:30 AM, however, I was ready for some rest, and pulled off the top two blankets, so that it wasn't so "heavy!"
Thus, I probably shouldn't have been surprised when I fell back asleep after I turned my alarm off at 7:10… All the way to 7:50!!!! I don't know when I've gotten out of the house so fast…
I was at the Metro, and on the train by 8:23 AM, and off to school.
While on the train, we heard a curious announcement: that the walkway to the Red Line from the last station on our line (Light Blue) was closed. They didn't say why, just that it wasn't open.
It wasn't until I got to school that I learned why -- two bombs went off, at two stations on the Red Line, in the middle of rush hour… The first, at 8:00 AM, Lubyanka Station (close to the FSB [Homeland Security] Building), and the second at 8:37 AM (?) at Park Kultury (SW Moscow). They were purported to be Suicide Bombings -- two women, from a Chechen Separatist group.
Everyone in our entire school group was ok -- but Anya (one of my group members) got stuck on the Red Line -- so she wasn't at school today. … It seems, however, that one of the Academic Year (AY) students was *in* the Park Kultury Station when the explosion happened… She is ok, albeit rather shaken up (when I saw her in the afternoon). To find at least some humor in the situation, I heard her say to Brittany at one point, "…[Everyone] keeps asking if I want tea! No, I don't want tea!" -- As in, all the Russians she knows are asking her if she wants tea -- because tea is a, "cure-all," here. Well, it's supposed to be comforting at any rate.
Everyone is a little on edge, understandably. And the city was pretty dead today, with most people using the attacks as a reason not to go in to work or anything. Really, it appears to be that the *second* attack is what has really gotten everyone on edge. John (our RD) said that it (the whole affair/the feeling in the air) reminded him of a time 8-10 years ago, when, "…It seemed like things like this were happening once a week, or at least once a month…"
I'll still be going to dance tonight -- what else can you do but keep on living after something like this happens?
*shakes her head* It's incredible, how people can do this -- for what, really? How does blowing up a bunch of innocent people make your point any more valid? It certainly doesn't make anyone *want* to listen to you or your demands…
God help us all… We certainly need it.
Moscow Kitty; 5:50 PM
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