Both sophomores Natalie Webb of Louisville and Kaitlin Weyman of Alexandria say they're glad to be alive following the terrorist attacks that killed 129 people.
The two are spending this semester studying abroad at Harlaxton College in England about an hour north of London. They took a quick sight-seeing trip to Paris the weekend of the attacks.
Even though they were in the middle of the city that night, Webb told WKU Public Radio they didn't realize how serious the attacks were until they got back to their hotel room. The hardest part of the ordeal was not knowing what was going to happen next. "There were three of us in the room and we were all crying at one point, we were panicking because we didn't know if we were going to be next," she said, "We didn't know if it was over, if it was still happening. We had no way to know where it was because information was so spotty."
And Webb says the rest of the weekend was just as stressful. "We were worried about people on the street. I was terrified to be in a restaurant, in a public place. It affected how we saw things."
Both young women were able to fly out of Paris and back to London safely Sunday morning. They say the got to Charles de Gaulle Airport six hours early to make sure they'd make it on time.