ben in school

ben in school
Originally uploaded by nostalgist

I took pictures at Ben's school this week, at the teacher's request, in preparation for this big grade 1 bash where the kids all get their first prayerbooks. So they sent all the children out to me, one by one in the little courtyard under the palm tree, to be photographed, and then when Ben's class was done they kept on sending me more kids - the other grade 1 group, the special needs kids - until I had taken about 200 pictures (the girls were much better at posing). I took my memory card to the photo shop at Hebrew University the next day and it was empty. I was shocked - so shook up I wasn't even sure that I could teach. It wasn't only the waste of all this work, and the prospect of humiliating myself, it was the epistemological shock of something gone that I was certain was there. Kind of like what happened to the stock market this year.

But when I got home and put the photos in the camera they all reappeared. Now if only my stocks would do that.