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La Dolce Vita
As I sit writing this last blog, I can hardly believe that these past five weeks are already finished. My time has been so jam packed with events, sight seeing, classes, and dinners out that I never had the time to register that it would ever end.
While it has been short, it has totally [...]
Making a Decision: learn or not to learn; Italian or not Italian; Rome or not Rome!
By far the most difficult part about this “gap year” has been making decisions about what to do with my time. I sweat over the smallest details and panic whether I am choosing the right program. Until all suitcases are back in my hands in the final destination, I am physically unable to take that [...]
How quickly will I learn Italian?
It’s a question everybody seems to ask. I asked the same thing before and after I got here, it always went something like this:
“how long before I can have conversations?”,
“well…”,
“how long before I can understand the news?”,
“It-”,
“Oh just get to the point will you! How long before I can chat up an olive skinned Italian [...]