I had a most peculiar ride on the subway the other day because so many different people came on it.
At first i thought it would only be filled with work commuters but soon a whole school class came on it, i thought i would get my compartment for my self but i had to share it with this class of children around 7 years. When i first got on the subway it was almost empty as i come on one of the first stops on its journey thru the city. A teacher stowed all the children into seats and stood watching them as the train continued.
Then after a few stops i saw a lot of small children standing on the pavilion, they also came into the tram but sat a bit away from me as the seats next to me already was taken by the school class.
They also had with them 2 prams that both carried 4 children each so they took up a lot of room in the door way.
Now the train looked packed but as we soon were to discover that wasn`t the end of it! A few stops later there was a group of school children who were going on a bike trip.
This group had sleeping bags with them so i know they were going on a school trip.
When i saw their backpacks and sleep over equipment it made me think about how sad it must have been for the parents of the victims of Breivik to get the horrible phone call that someone was on the island killing people.
Also i can imagine that when the parents to this sporty class were packing their things down for this school camp, they were probably thinking about the same thing.
In fact it made me so sad that i started to cry.
One of the victims had her father on the mobile phone when she was shoot to death during the conversation. The bullet went thru the phone.
A lot of children called and text they`re parents while Breivik was shooting. Imagine how that must have felt for the parents to know that the children were in danger and they couldn`t reach to them?
I didn`t want to ruin the children's day out so i kept my crying silent as i sat in the fully packed subway of joyous and smiling children.