So klein aber so GROß

I love that about Graz. It's a small little city, compared to Portland, and it's very centralized, almost every time I go out into the city I can run into someone I know and even if I don't know them very well, we hug and kiss on the cheek and greet each other. It makes me feel really cool when I run into someone, like I'm popular and have a ton of friends or something. Its also great because I can easily remember how to get places, which of the main straßenbahns go where and how, always, to get to hauptplatz. It's just nice to feel like I can navigate the city and get where  want to go relatively easily, and not feel like I'm always lost when I try to go somewhere new. 

But on the other hand Graz feels so huge sometimes. I'm always spotting new places like restaurants and being like "wow I wanna try that someday," or cool looking stores that have gotta have something cool and interesting for me to see. Or the other day, I found out about this fantastic farmers market near my new house that is open everyday, but is best on Saturdays, that looks wonderful and I know I want to go back and really explore it sometime, but I had no idea existed earlier. 

I love that I know I wont get bored in this city, that it offers enough always have a new surprise for me, but at the same times is totally manageable and to so big and surprising that it's overwhelming, but just right. 

The only problem is every time I see something new and think "that looks tasty I should try it someday," I have to sadly remind myself, you're a poor exchange student don't kid yourself you live off of less than three euro kabab. But kabab is amazing so I'm ok with that.