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Apr. 16th, 2007 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsI don't know how to say anything about Virginia Tech.
I first heard about the mass scale of what happened in Hebrew class. It felt at first almost like living a scene from an absurdist play; I of course don't speak Hebrew very well, and neither do most of the people who were trying to talk about what had happened. In Hebrew. There was a moment when the one explaining said "shaloshim" - 30 - and you could see everyone's face as they tried to figure out whether he'd said the number wrong, or they were misunderstanding, because of course that couldn't mean what they thought it did.
But the words aren't actually any easier in English, so.
I am very far away from what happened - three timezones. It feels very far away and very close at the same time, like all college campuses exist in some separate plane in proximity to each other. I can't imagine what it feels like to those who are closer.
I don't feel any more frightened or insecure walking around my campus than I did yesterday or the day before.
I first heard about the mass scale of what happened in Hebrew class. It felt at first almost like living a scene from an absurdist play; I of course don't speak Hebrew very well, and neither do most of the people who were trying to talk about what had happened. In Hebrew. There was a moment when the one explaining said "shaloshim" - 30 - and you could see everyone's face as they tried to figure out whether he'd said the number wrong, or they were misunderstanding, because of course that couldn't mean what they thought it did.
But the words aren't actually any easier in English, so.
I am very far away from what happened - three timezones. It feels very far away and very close at the same time, like all college campuses exist in some separate plane in proximity to each other. I can't imagine what it feels like to those who are closer.
I don't feel any more frightened or insecure walking around my campus than I did yesterday or the day before.
