Small Details - To Be Continuously Updated

• Jerk of the U-Bahn/S-Bahn/tram/bus as it starts to pull away from the station
• Slowly roasting döner in the window of many a restaurant
• Seeing the TV tower everywhere in the city no matter how far from the center you are
• Feeling the wind whipping through your hair at Tempelhof
• Bright yellow of the BVG transport
• Beginning to prefer sparkling to still water
• Learning as much as possible about your new city, its history and its secrets. 
• Forming a friendly but language-limited friendship with the man who runs the sandwich shop next door, as you try and both communicate in German.
• The whoosh of the trains as they pass through stations
• Eleven flights of stairs between the U-Bahn station and your apartment. 
• Laughing at various aspects of the city that make it Berlin
• Adjusting your public transport route to get around issues such as strikes, police action removing a half-naked man from the roof of a major station, and other hindrances
• Frequenting the bakery around the corner for cheap but delicious pastries and always being the recipient of the baker's constant patience and friendliness despite the language barrier
• Loving public transportation and the everyday commute, for the people-watching, the time to think, and the constant sense of adventure and movement
• Becoming close with your host mom over regular chats over cups of jasmine tea
• Learning to navigate around the city without any hesitation
• Traveling on your own for the first time and experiencing how wonderful it is
• Making fast friends with strangers or friends of friends who restore your faith in humanity. 
• Becoming addicted to German candy.
• Random conversations with strangers who you will never see again but cause you to see the world in a different view.
• Improving in German everyday just by hearing it
• Morning crepes with host family
• Being so homesick you think you might just completely give up. 
• Regularly going to a local bar/cafe that is quiet but wonderful atmospherically. 
• Playing with your host brother after his initial hesitance regarding you wears off.
• Knowing what to pack for nearly four months in a single suitcase and backpack. 
• Transforming a strange new place into a city that you love fiercely
• Adapting so quickly to life abroad, you're not quite sure how it happened
• Fostering an appreciation for new food and drink
• Passing three doner shops on the way home
• Eating food from different cultures every day
• The smell of fresh flower shops everywhere
• Cheap street vendors at the city center
• Brandenburg Gate, Tiergarten, Reichstag, and the TV tower at at night
• Variety of street art - from basic to masterpiece
• Picking up pieces of conversations from street corners and signs