A woman who was trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center for 27 hours after the September 11 terrorist attacks is ready to tell her story to Bermuda.

And after her work with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is done tomorrow night, Genelle Guzman-McMillan promised to come back to Bermuda for some rest and relaxation.

"We only live an hour and a half away on Long Island and Bermuda is beautiful," she said.

Mrs. Guzman-McMillan was born in Trinidad, but said Bermuda was "different. The people are friendly, welcoming. The beaches here are clean."

While on the Island for the next few days, she will be accompanied by her husband Roger and daughter Kaydi.

Their lives have carried on despite 9/11. Since 2003, Mrs. Guzman-McMillan has been a permanent employee at the Port Authority, the same company that she was working for on the 64th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11. However, before 9/11, she was only a temporary worker.

"I had to go through all that to be made permanent at work," she joked.

But her manner became serious when Mrs. Guzman-McMillan describes herself as a miracle.

That morning, rather than leave her office right away after the first plane hit, she waited.

But while walking down stairway B, on the thirteenth floor, the building collapsed on top of her.

Somehow, her body found an air pocket between the millions of tons of falling steel and concrete.

Her leg was pinned under concrete and her head was jammed between rubble so that she cannot move it from side to side, but during the time she spent underneath the wreckage she prayed to God for help. She felt around and she found something soft in the darkness so she pulled it towards her, because everything else felt hard. The soft thing was a fireman's leg, but she tried to put that out of her mind.

Finally she was pulled from the wreckage ? the last person to be pulled out of the wreckage in one piece. Workers at ground zero said they saw her because the reflective bands on the fireman's uniform stood out.

"I spent five weeks at Bellevue hospital," she told

"My right leg was crushed and I spent two years trying to walk properly.

"The nerve in my leg was completely dead. I spent a lot of time trying to walk. But now the leg brace is off and I can wear shoes. I have a permanent limp," she said.

Even though she has survived so much, she said she can't help but be nervous when she has to go out on stage and her a crowd of thousands about her life story.

But she said she never takes notes out onto the stage with her, even though she normally talks for 20 to 30 minutes.

"(The words) comes from my spirit ? whatever comes to my mind, I go with that flow. It is my testimony, I've lived through it ? it is my life.

She said that the thing that helps her the most to get over her stage fright is to "pray ... that someone will get saved by my story. The testimony is my story. It is who I was before, and who I am today. It is about giving your life experience.

"I encourage people to turn their lives around, because they never know...." she said.

"I could have been gone in the blink of an eye," she said: "But here I am, travelling and doing other things. This is the miracle I have experienced."

She said that her life before September 11 was what she called the "light-life" ? partying hard at night clubs every night.

"But the things I used to do, I no longer do that. It is more peaceful, easy-going life with my family," she said.

Going to church and reading the bible and doing things like a "Christian woman" are the things she now enjoys.

Even though being a member at the church for nearly three years, this is the first time, she has ever travelled with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir to tell her story.

"I have (spoken) on my own before, or with a pastor, but it is really great to come with the choir," she said.

She said she expects her life story to be even more powerful with the choir stood behind her on Saturday night.

"I am looking forward to that," she said.

Unfortunately however, the choir will not let her sing.

"I wish they would let me sing. Maybe I will join in from the sidelines," she laughed.

Mrs. Guzman-McMillan will appear at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir concert on Saturday night.