11.5.07

Alma Matters 2 – FC rooftop

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Classroom Chair on the FC Rooftop, originally uploaded by pauloy.

The FC rooftop was effusively hot in the summer, the galvanized roof shimmering heat off the surface. Tinta would walk the four corners – rickety metal sheets beneath our feet cracking and pinging – surrounding the central structure where a few chairs, a short ladder and the wheel of torture awaited further use. Later on, complaints reached us – noisy walkers we were, and were soon evicted to another place where a couch for naps, a table and several chairs for card games and random scribbling of poetry and haikus were a welcome respite in the oppressive summer heat.