Ciao!

Everyone was right. Studying abroad will change your life forever.

It’s been two months since I got back from my semester abroad in Florence, Italy, and I think about it every day. Being on your own in a new country, with a new language and customs, is so developmental for a person. The things I took away from this experience cannot be matched, and I’m going to take you through a bit of my experience.

I went to the Syracuse University satellite campus in Florence. My apartment was located on Via degli Artisti, and luckily, it was a two-minute walk to campus.

I will say that adjusting to living abroad and being so far from home was challenging. I missed my family and my friends who were at Syracuse in New York, but it gave me a way to be fully independent and make this experience what I wanted.

Living in Florence was an experience like no other. The history, the architecture and the FOOD were unreal.

Cafes and ristorantes at every corner, a sandwich shop every 50ft, the opportunities to eat were endless. The amount of gelato I ate was unfathomable, and I would do anything to get a cup from La Sorbettiera.

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A Semester Somewhere