twenty-seven/vingt-sept

I know that I tend to take a lot of photos of my wall, but in this instance I am doing it to show Iffat a decisive moment that I wanted to tell her about during class today. There was never the chance though as you will recall, when I was trying to start conversations with you, Michael was busy calling on me to answer questions to the class.

 

Anyway, this moment is from Barcelona, Spain. Kristen and I had maybe a day left together before she was going back to Rotterdam and I would be off to Madrid. We had been really bad at taking photo booth pictures throughout the trip, so we decided to do one there. In practically every metro stop, there would be a photo booth (as we later figured out, this is because people are always needing passport size photos taken).

 

So we are trying to figure out how we should pose for these pictures, and then Kristen just shook her head and said "Let's pretend we're having fun!!!" And this is the photo that printed out four times. Because they just use them for passport photos, so it makes sense to print the same pose four times, instead of taking four different shots like two Canadians having fun would expect.

 

We each have two, as you can see. Mine rests on my wall above my laptop. Kristen is an old lady and keeps hers in her wallet. You should ask to see it maybe if you ever meet her... (Friends & Family Night!)

 

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Unrelated details would beguile me to tell you that the masking tape that says "ETHICS" is the label that was on my binder in third year when I took an Intro to Applied Ethics course. I keep it up there to keep myself moral.

 

The polaroid is actually the very first one that I ever took with the camera my friend Sherry gave me. It's the view out the window from my desk back in Aurora.

 

The cutout of an empty photo booth was found in some magazine a long time ago.

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