It's 12:18 am on Sunday now, I am already two days late of writing up my diary, this has become a normal for me in the past week.
9/24/2015 is a dark day in Seattle's history. As I shared, I needed to leave the office in late morning to go home to pack for my son in order to have him moving into his dorm at Elm during the designated hours in the afternoon. While I was passing the exit of 160th Street on I-405, I heard the hostess on Spirit mentioned that a very severe buses collision just incurred on Aurora Bridge and 50 people were evaluated. The sad news shocked me, even distracted me from taking the exit of Bothell-Everett Highway. Eventually, I had to turn onto I-5 North and got back home through 164th Street.
After sitting in front of my laptop in reading room, I kept checking the updates on the website of Seattle Times and learned 2 people had died and 12 other were in critical conditions. Eventually the fatalities increased to 4. Many reports had described this accident in detail, so I don't need to elaborate it. I would like to express my condolences. These individuals wished to experience beautiful Seattle and learn American cultures given they were all international students at North Seattle Community College, but sacrificed their lives here.
Actually, several minutes ago, I read the updates on website of Seattle Times again and learned that four victims were 49 years old Austrian woman, 35 years old Japanese woman, 18 years old Indonesian student and 17 years old Chinese minor. It's so painful for their families and city of Seattle.
It's such a bless that my son goes to UW, which is only 20 miles away from our house in Bothell. Because of this advantage, we just packed beddings and clothes into two bags, a plenty of room was still available in one of the bags, so I even put his laptop case and backpack into it. If anything was left at home, I always can send it to him at his dorm. The commute is shorter than what I travel to work everyday. After packing, I messed up the floor in the reading room again.
Due to the earlier fatal accident on Aurora Bridge, it sounded the traffic was heavily congested everywhere, however, I managed to drive through the local routes to approach UW campus without encountering too much trouble. Getting a green flag at designated parking lot, we were heading to Elm.
Per instruction, my son went to the lobby at Elm to get his room key, he had lived in the same room during his freshman year, so it was just like coming back home for him. A UW student came over to help carry the bags while my son was still in the lobby. I pulled two big bags and put into the cart and chatted with that young man. He learned that my son was a sophomore, so everything wasn't new. Because the whole move-in process was exactly the same as that in last year, it only took us 5 minutes to get it done. My son had planned to go home because the next day would be his birthday. However, there would be a meeting in the evening on Friday scheduled by residence advisors on their floor, so he decided to stay until late Friday night. In addition, he really wanted to spend more time to attend events before the quarter starts on 9/30.
Coming back home, eating dinner, I watched different pieces of news on CNN for a while, then fell into sleep. At 10:30 pm, I got up to drive to gym where I hadn't gone to work out for almost 3 weeks. One Sunday, I practiced soccer pretty hard on the playground at Lynnwood High School, which probably hurt the muscle on the bottom of my left foot. It hadn't caused the pain for the first several days but caused the problems a week later, I even wasn't able to walk normally for a week. The pain was gone last week, so I decided to resume workout. When I arrived at gym, there were only 2 or 3 people left there. I didn't complete my weekday routine. At the moment I was heading to the door, the guy at front desk said "Drive Safe" to me. Generally, these guys only say "have a good night", I could tell the impact of earlier fatal accident was on everyone.
Ok, I would need to start early two days in row because I would have a dental appointment at Gentle Dental at 4:00 pm on Friday.
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