By: Samantha Sinatra
Imagine yourself standing in front of a magnificent building in France. While standing there you hear the sounds of mo-peds zooming by and people blabbing to each other in French. The anticipation is building upon yourself as you wait online to get inside the Eiffel Tower. Once you're in there you are surrounded by beautiful elaborate walls and stunning paintings you thought could only be realistic in movies. You are in a world of make-believe, being oblivious to the noises around you, until you hear the screeching siren that ruins your concentration to the detail inside the building. You then realize it is the fire alarm. Everyone is scurrying, so you do the same. Outside the blabbing in French becomes louder while the mo-peds move slower to observe what is taking place.
This is how a tourist felt on September 14th 2010 when there was an unusual bomb threat that took place at the famous Eiffel Tower. All 2,000 tourists that were enjoying themselves had to be evactuated due to the emergency. Additionally, the Saint-Michel subway shut down as well. A police spokesman implied that it was imperative for the subway to get evacuated since there was a terrorist attack back in 1995 that killed 8 and injured 150. However, most Parisians were not alarmed since bomb threats happen quite frequently in France every year.
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4 comments:
First I have to say very nicely written Sam. I say that with ease because from the minute I started reading your article all the way down to the end I was intrigued and very interested and honestly wish you wrote more. You killed it with this article by being able to inform me on something I had no idea about until just now, but also the way you just described the Eiffel tower in such a unique way made it so much easier for me to visualize everything you were saying. Basically you were very informant and made it easier for the reader who in this case was me to be able to use my imagination to best correlate with your story. Good work Sam!
I like how you wrote this blogg, its informative with enough of a creative twist to make pull you in but not overpower the main point being the bomb threat. Its interesting that they cleared the subway because of an event that happened 15 years ago kind of like in the US now how alerts get heightened because of 9/11. This was a good piece to read!
Jerilynn S.
I like how this was done because in the very beginning, you set the scene of what was going on around the tourists. It was very descriptive and the reader is able to imagine the whole story taking place. It seems like a very big news topic, but then at the end you mention how it happens so frequently which was a shock to read!
I love the way that your story brings the reader into the perspective of the tourists in Paris. Your post was a creative and interesting way for readers to get informed about the bomb threat. Keep up that style of writing because it's very fun to read.
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