June 8th, 2009

RE: Saturday Night

I forgot to mention this, somehow. I took the S-Bahn to The Bird on Saturday (the S9, which goes straight from Warschauer to Treptow, diagonally bypassing Ostkreuz by about 100 meters. There were fireworks going on over Treptower Park, and suddenly the conductor came on over the loud speaker, announced that there were fireworks on the left side of the train, and turned off all the cabin lights so that we could better see them.

It was this wholly magical moment that made me stop and wonder why anyone would ever opt to live somewhere that is not here. Seriously.