In the school where I worked, the teachers were happy to send Alina to the secretariat, for example for an HDMI cable.

They then gave her a note with the requested information.

That note also served to prove that she was not just walking around, but that she was indeed acting on behalf of a teacher.

Almost always, when she saw that it was  I  who was about to speak to her, she would quickly press her lips to the note, leaving a red print on it.

Would girls who are small in stature, like her, have more eroticism in their bodies than the bigger ones ?  I often wondered.

One November she arrived with a pack of New Year's calendars to benefit a local football club.  For each month there was a beautiful girl WITH football clothes, but not always IN football clothes.   Alina's photo appeared on one of the twelve monthly prints.

Then a light dawned on me.

I was the school photographer at the time.  Taking photos with your mobile phone was not yet common;  I had a professional digital camera, a Nikon D700.  With that I beat every event that took place at school.

Alina was probably hoping that I would ask her for a studio shoot.

Maybe I disappointed her badly.  I asked her for a shoot in the heart of Antwerp.  Subject : model outside the studio.

After the last class on Wednesday morning I took her by car to the Kloosterstraat (Monastery street).   There was a giant head of Buddha as an eye-catcher at the entrance to a gadget shop. Gadgets like gnomes in various colors, for example; they all raised their middle fingers.

On our way — on foot — to the center and the cathedral, I took several photos at various locations.

Coffee roasting and tasting 'Daily Roast' (now permanently closed)   at the Hoogstraat (High Street).

'Het vermoeide model'  (The tired model;  now permanently closed)

Het Elfde Gebod.  (The Eleventh Commandment).  Brasserie near the Antwerp Cathedral.