komisches Wetter

This is a picture of our living room window. Do you like my terracotta vase? Thanks to Nidhi&Vivek I can display its awesome bottle-shaped silhouette on my window.

As you can see, the picture was taken when it was bright and sunny outside, but the windows were still wet from the ocassional showers that we´ve been getting.

Sometimes the whole day will be gray; other days it´s cloudy and drizzling one minute, bright and sunny the next one. This is great if you like surprises, but not so much if you want to plan an outdoor activity. That´s the main reason I still have not been to the swimming pool yet. This changing weather makes it also difficult to decide what you should wear before leaving the house.

It´s suppossed to be summer, but we haven´t really felt the heat. We do get a lot of sunlight though, from about 5:00am until almost 9:00pm. I really like this part of the year because of the extended daylight. The days are longer and yet they are still not enough for me to do everything that I would like to.

"Summer" look? - Fabi dressed up to go to "Family Day"

Since I´m writing this post, I´ll also tell you that today was "Family Day" at a Siemens office in Nuremberg. Ishan, Fabi and I took bus no. 30 to Thon and then met the family who had invited us for this activity. The family consists of a nice couple who has a teenage son. They are from Pakistan and have been in Germany for as long as nearly as I have been alive. The man of the family came to Erlangen as a student when he was 20 years old ---and he lived in the Wichernstr. Wohnheim (the same one where I was as a student!). He says it was a great student house back in those days...only two floors where reserved for hosting girls. The rest of the floors were for the guys. Funny how things change. That student building was not at all flattering when I stayed there, but I´m happy to know that it has been renovated with new bathrooms and kitchens.

We all had a great time in "Family Day". Lots of food, drinks and other goodies. By far, Fabi was the one who enjoyed the most. After lunch he insisted to go stand next to the small stage where six musicians where playing southern U.S.A. music. The band had a cello, a keyboard and trumpets. Fabi jumped and danced the whole time oblivious to everyone around him who was smiling with delight as they followed his moves. When the band took a break and the sun was shining outside the tent, Fabi jumped to his heart´s content in one of those big inflatable toys.

With so much jumping and dancing, it´s no wonder he fell asleep on the bus ride back home!