{"id":40,"date":"2015-11-26T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-11-26T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T22:09:46","slug":"berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/2015\/11\/26\/berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin is mysterious. Four days in this city is probably not even enough to discover properly any area of the city. Touring the city by car, I saw snapshots of the Turkish markets, highways, the Berlin Wall, trams on the east side, busses on the west side, commuter rails, Rittersport chocolate, lovely apartments, my friend’s balcony where I can sit in the morning and watch the sun rise while the September cold hadn’t settled in yet, Tempelhof, the-day-after of the kite festival, Postdam, the outskirts Wannsee – Kladow… So many things flashed across my eyes as if I was watching a sped up montage of history and culture, and my brain racing to retain as much as possible of the scenes. It’s a beautiful city no doubt,\u00a0complicated, mosaic, layered, changing.<\/p>\n

The city has character. People are happy and moody, the way big cities are with the constant flowing of time and business. It’s extremely inter-connected, but somehow shuts down on Sunday! It’s obviously a very political city as well and has seen milestones in modern history. How overwhelming it is to realize that things happen<\/em> right there, with Germany being an important European power, and so many books, fiction and non-fiction alike, are about that very city. I felt small and swallowed by time and place. Oh gosh, I thought, this is Berlin!<\/p>\n

Perhaps if I was a historian, I would have focused on seeing other things… But being me, I chased after chocolate and chocolate. You could say that Berlin is very sweet, very darling. Not something you would usually say about a huge city.<\/p>\n

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There’s so much I cannot write about Berlin, because I felt like I saw only 1\/1000 of a second of its existence – so much I wish I could feel and understand. But “optimism” is the word I’ll use to describe the city. Optimism. Berlin has seen bad and good, and through all that, is a witness of changes. The city has made it through tough and great times, and I saw that a place can really start over and change. Once, what was an airport can now be a square. What were train tracks can now be a garden. And if times get hectic and suffocating, I can always escape to the top of the hill to see the city from above.<\/p>\n

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The Berlin sky is one full of hope.<\/p>\n

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And although blurry, I had extremely happy moments in Berlin. May you never sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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