Rasha
Almaqaleh
Last weekend, there were a couple of summer fests in Norderstedt, the city where we live. On Saturday, we attended a very nice fest at the church which our child’s kindergarten is part of. It was entertaining and there were many activities for the kindergarteners. Our child had so much fun that day with his peers. On Sunday, there was also another summer fest in the city park and it was stunning! Our son drooled over the variety of activities and games as he was joyfully screaming the entire time “look at this! Look at that!”
Those summer-related festivities were truly stupendous though there was only one thing missing, summer! The weather was not at its finest; there was no sunshine as it was cloudy, a bit showery and cold. Even though we are now in the middle of July, we are desperately still waiting for the summer to show up!
When we hear people around us say that it is ‘officially’ the summertime, I feel the urge to grab a magnifier lens and start searching for it. In Yemen, we hated that it was too sunny all the time; it’s sunny in wintertime and in summertime. But here we are now in Germany where we don't get to see the sun very often! It’s hard for us to cope with such unpredictable weather especially in summer. The sun here appears occasionally from time to time and it was surprisingly sunnier in the last winter than in this summer!
Last weekend, there were a couple of summer fests in Norderstedt, the city where we live. On Saturday, we attended a very nice fest at the church which our child’s kindergarten is part of. It was entertaining and there were many activities for the kindergarteners. Our child had so much fun that day with his peers. On Sunday, there was also another summer fest in the city park and it was stunning! Our son drooled over the variety of activities and games as he was joyfully screaming the entire time “look at this! Look at that!”
Those summer-related festivities were truly stupendous though there was only one thing missing, summer! The weather was not at its finest; there was no sunshine as it was cloudy, a bit showery and cold. Even though we are now in the middle of July, we are desperately still waiting for the summer to show up!
When we hear people around us say that it is ‘officially’ the summertime, I feel the urge to grab a magnifier lens and start searching for it. In Yemen, we hated that it was too sunny all the time; it’s sunny in wintertime and in summertime. But here we are now in Germany where we don't get to see the sun very often! It’s hard for us to cope with such unpredictable weather especially in summer. The sun here appears occasionally from time to time and it was surprisingly sunnier in the last winter than in this summer!
For the past two months, the weather has been unbelievably changeable and the funny thing is that it changes on an hourly basis! For example, it could be cold, rainy and windy at, say, 11 but at 12 it may become warm dry and windless! Just like that. Under those circumstances, we find ourselves wrapped up in putting on clothes and taking them off the whole time.
In a word, one of the most confusing things we have to deal with here in Germany is the baffling weather. It seems that we will spend what’s left of the ‘summertime’ waiting for the summer to pop up!
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