Pro tips to navigating your first week abroad

Let’s talk about it. Whether you’re the adventurous ‘Throw-Anything-At-Me’ type or the timid ‘I-Just-Want-To-Make-It-Through-TSA’ type, your first week abroad is going to be many, many things.  My first day in Rome, though beautiful and exciting, was a hard day. I cried a couple of times once I could sit in my new room. The time …

Pick a Favorite?

Every Monday, the classroom is filled with chatter about what everyone did the previous weekend. “How did you like [insert city name here]?” “What did you do there?” “Oh, I loved/didn’t like that city” “What’s your favorite place you’ve been so far?” Of course I participate in these pre-class discussions. How could I not? The …

Grazzie and Gracias

I know it has been a while since I posted anything but I have a good reason for it. In the past ten days I was on a study trip to probably few of the biggest and finest cities in Europe; Rome, Madrid, and Barcelona. Even though it was a “study trip” we had a …