who, why, where etc

I'm a 23 year old male from Belgium (Flemish part), just finished my studies. Not wanting to indulge myself immediatly in the dreadful life of the working class, I was in search of something interesting and new, something which would be affordable and preferrably last a while so I could get my head straight (and once in a while decently fucked up as well) and return as a wizened, more experienced-in-life person thing yadda yadda.

You're wondering why I'm not writing in dutch, as that is my primary language? Well, keeping a blog is only interesting if somebody actually reads it. And while I won't e-mail the link of this blog to all my friends and family and facebookcontacts (does anyone ever makes it beyond the first post of a blog sent to him/her?) I do want it to show up on google result pages of people looking for information about the stuff I'm writing about.
For this blog is about Berlin.

So why Berlin? Isn't paris more romantic, doesn't Amsterdam has more weed and wouldn't a trekking of one month through India be more life-changing than a stay in Berlin, of all places? Probably so, yes.
However Berlin came out as an ideal mix of several factors:
-Price: I have a couple of thousand euro to spend, but I want it to last as long as possible and offer me the most. Paris, London etc are very expensive cities to really live in. Long travels to the USA, Asia, Africa cost lots of money for flights.
-History: Berlin isn't just history like our Bruges is, it's living history. People living here actually lived when history was made, now twenty years ago. Real history affecting real people and the rest of the world.
Isn't the WW1 history of Ypres not interesting as well? Off course, but almost nobody who really experienced it is still alive. Worse, this means the city is full of fish-and-chips places and crammed with British tourists. This seems to be biggest problems with historical places: once the history is a couple of generations ago, it becomes yet another big touristic attraction. Berlin isn't like that.
Also, this means the history as buildings, langdmarks and random street stuff is still pretty authentic. It's not (all) yet put behind glass with gazillion-watt spots and ten-language speaking information boards right next to it. It's just there, derelict with bird shit and dirt and tree leaves and graffiti on it, like it is in a living city.
-Language and culture: I don't speak much German but I understand and read it pretty wel. Besides that, most people speak English very well in Berlin and switch effortlessly to it. Also, I would go there alone so I didn't want it to be all-new and all-weird with completely different food, customs, shops, transport etc like you would have in Asian or African countries.
-Climate: september and october seems to be a good time to go to Berlin: it's dry, sunny, not extremely hot nor is it cold and dark like in the winter months.
-Music: having become more interested in all kinds of music and specifically electronic music since a while, and having some experience with decent clubbing in Belgium, Berlin was a logical choice. City of Techno with lots of underground clubs in old buildings, not all tourists but a large young population going there as well, which keeps the quality up and the prices down.

In the next posts, expect stuff about my life here. It won't be overly exciting in the way easily excited people write blogs, I'm a rather down-to-earth person. I just want to give my impressions. It won't all be factual and of interest to everyone, as I am also keeping this blog as a kind of logbook to keep as a memory.

Oh, another blog which I found very interesting about Berlin:
http://jessinberlin.blogspot.com/