Rainy Day in Berlin – A Children’s Poem
Snow. Rain. Snow. Slush. What a yucky day in Berlin.
All I can offer you – especially those of you with sunny HOT days in the US – is a poem I wrote the first time I experienced rain in Berlin. I have to say that the wet is my first complaint about living here. My second would be the creepy lady who cut me in line at the grocery store and started yelling and waving her finger at me. I still have no idea what she was saying. All I know is that she was wearing leather pants, and she was not the kind of person who should be wearing stuff like that. Especially in this kind of weather.
RAINY DAY
The weather here is miserable
I only have one little wish–
that I had missed that dirty puddle
so then my left shoe would not squish.
(Image and poem by Katie for Making This Home)
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:54 am
haha – your poem is very cute and it made me giggle. It’s cold rainy and miserable here today too. But I’m about to warm it up considerably by attempting to bake bread for the first time! Hope you guys have a good day too! Christy
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:02 am
That is the first thing I think about as well when it is rainy. I wish I had better shoes. . .
And I am sorry about the rude lady. sheesh. there is NO call for that EVER.
(((((Katie)))))
~a
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
That’s such a cute poem!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:07 am
I love your poem. So true.
It’s rainy and miserable here in HD too. Slushy, rainy, mucky. I love living in Germany. ;)
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Yikes…leather pants. It’s cold and rainy here (Virginia), too.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
i wish it would rain here or snow (Colorado)
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 am
No precip in Tennessee Heute (A useful German word, which means “today”.) Es war, aber, unglaublich kalt!
Just out of curiosity, where did you take the Fernseherturm photo from?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:35 am
I live in the UK, and although my home is slightly larger than yours (with four young kids I think it need be); Reading through your posts I’m realizing how European I have become. We leave our shoes in the hallway too. I don’t understand the need to put doors and walls between every room – it makes me a bit claustrophobic. We did take down a handful of walls (most of which were supporting walls – scary)….and England is WET not just wet but over cast and damp. I think I might nearly have forgotten what the blue sky looks like!
Thanks for your forum I don’t feel so strange now!
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:35 am
I live in the UK, and although my home is slightly larger than yours (with four young kids I think it need be); Reading through your posts I’m realizing how European I have become. We leave our shoes in the hallway too. I don’t understand the need to put doors and walls between every room – it makes me a bit claustrophobic. We did take down a handful of walls (most of which were supporting walls – scary)….and England is WET not just wet but over cast and damp. I think I might nearly have forgotten what the blue sky looks like!
Thanks for your forum I don’t feel so strange now!
(I was born and raised in California and Wyoming)
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Matt, the TV tower is surrounded by beautiful trees. I was walking along the plaza and looked up at it, probably just a couple hundred meters away. Glad you like it! Can TN really be “cold”? haha
Thanks for the sweet thoughts all. Tiphphinnie, you give me faith for our little home in the future.
Katie
February 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Ah, ok. I was just wondering if you were shooting near the tower or from another vantage point in the city. One of my favorite shots of it from this summer is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archelenon/2966360364/in/set-72157608293161281/.