A Year of Two Summers

Authors

Shaun Levin

Abstract

1978 was a year of two summers. A summer of departure and a summer of arrival. I spent the first summer at Habonim camp in a green canvas tent on a site marked by hammocks and benches made by Joburg boys. Big-city boys who weren't afraid to be caught smoking in their tents after lights- out. Boys proud to stand before the mirror at dawn with shaving-cream on their cheeks. In their shiny Adidas shorts and naked backs. Boys who had their own versions to the songs we sang and they shouted them out in competition.

Recommended Citation

Levin, Shaun, A Year of Two Summers, Kunapipi, 20(2), 1998.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol20/iss2/10