Chapter 69, Tenth Grade
1970 A new social guide, Nahum started working with us at the beginning of the second year of highschool. He was the son of Josef our school director. Nahum had a new philosophy. He thought that we needed more social activities. We had to be able to get out of our school grounds once in a while. He managed and arranged a few projects for us over the weekend at a nearby kibbutz. We had to pick oranges or weed some pepper field. With the money we earned Nahum bought us tickets for a new musical “Irma La Douce” in Tel Aviv. He borrowed the school’s big touring truck, and we spent a whole evening in Tel Aviv. We sang and reenacted the show on the way back to our school, until one by one we fell asleep, waking up only when we heard Nahum’s call: “Time for bed everyone!” It was a stormy night; the thunders and lightings were almost muffled by the rain hitting the round tin roof. It is always like that when the last rain of the year falls, but this was a little too late in the spring. I almos...