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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 50: Christmas in Zurich
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:34:57 -0500
References: <3DFB6615.2010805@webshuttle.ch>

Nathan:

Let's hear it for Christmas!

> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50.jpg
> (Voigtlander Bessa R2, 35mm Summilux ASPH, Fuji Press 800)


Another enjoyable slice of life from the old country... I'd like to see
this "living tree" idea in use over here.

> The alternates are in an entirely different vein. On one of the squares
> off Zurich's main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse, there is a "singing
> Christmas tree" every December. It is really a wooden structure covered
> with branches, able to accomodate lots of singing children. Every
> evening until the 22nd a different school from the area performs, and
> last week it was the turn of the Inter-Community School, which my
> children attend. My daughter (3rd grade) participated, and of course I
> was there with my camera.
> 
> First, the children and teachers had to get into their outfits in a
> hotel a few hundred metres from the tree. Here are the teachers
> struggling with their electric Santa hats:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt1.jpg
> 
> My daughter in her outfit:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt2.jpg
> 
> Now everyone is ready to walk to the tree. Of course I focused on my
> daughter, but it is actually the girl in the foreground who makes this
> picture:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt3.jpg
> 
> Now we're there and the children enter the tree:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt4.jpg
> 
> Of course it takes a bunch of 3rd graders several minutes to calm down
> and find the right page in the song book:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt5.jpg
> 
> But finally they get going:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt6.jpg
>
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