The Crawl

Here is where i spent a lot of time recently.... you see me on my way to swimming class. It's summer, everybody's outside, watching soccer or whatever... while i'm learning how to crawl in the Berlin Pankow indoor swimming pool. But I'm already hooked to crawling. How was it possible to ignore my being a water lover (wasser ratte) for so many years?

If you don't find me at SSE you can find me here:



This is where I'm hiding the rest of my spare time. We always go there very early in the morning to avoid the Berlin crowd. This sunday morning we wheren't first. The two blond girl's heads in the picture are two of 7 siblings who sat around where we normally jump into the water by ourselves. Their parents were about my age. The oldest girl around 12 years, the youngest boy 8 months maybe. They were totally calm, playing with each other, reading books, inventing "wood-games", teaching each other how to swim. It was a bit scary, how harmonic their aura was. But somehow i envied them. The parents i mean. They obviously did a great job. And you could tell it didn't take them too much effort.