Schoggi, Chäs und s'Schiissibürschteli

It was right after we had watched the planes in the sky.

In one of the last, flying over the asylum, may have been our visitors from Switzerland, my brother Rico and Ursina. They had shared two days with us at the Asylum.
"Where do our guests come from?" The cheerful pedestrian, moving along the fence from Tetra Pak to Tetra pak, came closer. I put down the watering can.
"There's something East Prussian about you," he would add after listening to everything I had said about the residents' home countries. He could not have been more pleased when I confessed my Swiss origin.
"Schissibürschteli," he would say, beaming at me. I asked again with a questioning smile and he would repeat "Schissibürschteli," happy and with pronounced articulation, "my favorite Swiss word." Our neighbor in Spandau obviously had a broad knowledge of Swiss vocabulary. Most lovers of the Swiss language never get that far. Their knowledge ends with "Chuchichäschtli" (small kitchen cabinet).

"Schissibürtschtli" is Swiss for toilet brush.

He could see the asylum from his window. The fluorescent lighting made him wonder how the residents could possibly sleep at night.

When he asked me whether I knew about the compound's history, I said no. "It has been a stockyard and slaughterhouse." This is why the water tower was there and the tracks behind the buildings. Freight trains had brought the animals. He remembers the pigs shrieking.

I would have preferred a dairy.

Haram (one of five Islamic commandments ( الأحكام الخمسة‎ ) that define the morality of human action).