Category: Italy: ISA Rome

The study abroad semester is almost over, classes are starting to get a little harder, but I had a great month of November. During the last month here, I didn’t travel much because I wanted to finish discovering Rome. On the first weekend of November I went to Florence with some friends because I felt…

Like most people, I had a fantasy in my mind before studying abroad of what it was going to be like. I thought that I would travel to a new country every weekend, never have to do homework, become best friends with my roommates and that we would cook dinner all together, that I would…

By now, it has been two months since I first arrived. Now I know how to speak a little bit of Italian, I’ve been taking Italian classes every school day. I am able to communicate at the restaurant and at the supermarket and I am able to understand most of what I read. I know…

It has been a month in Rome. I have been living with 5 roommates which I get along with very well. This month has been very cool, I have visited all the the historic monuments in Rome which are extraordinary. My life style has changed a bit from what I’m used to, I have a…

I have lived in the Caribbean all of my life, bouncing between the Islands of St. Maarten and Puerto Rico.   Interacting with Hispanic, French and Dutch citizens has allowed me to develop a culturally diverse identity.  Moving to Winter Park proved to be a challenging experience.   Campus life proved to be intellectually exciting, but socially,…

Fall Break abroad is as glamorous at it sounds. Being located in Rome, Italy comes with the perk of cheap travel prices for basically anywhere in the EU. The downside is that when it came to planning out fall break was there were so many options! I was traveling with my friend, Nancy, so we…

Through the program I am studying abroad with, ISA, I was given the opportunity to travel to Orvieto, Italy. ISA, had organized a day trip to the small city north of Rome on October 18th. So, with a small group of study abroad students I headed out of Rome on a bus. Our destination was…

I have never been a go-with-the-flow person. I love to have all of my days and actions planned out well in advance, especially when it comes to travel. However, my entire, organized world was shifted upside down when I moved to Rome this August. Each of my weekends here thus far has included a trip…

“Oh yeah, we drippin’ in finesse and gettin’ paid.” Stepping off of the bustling Viale di Trastevere into an Italian grocery, Cardi B’s voice is the last thing I expect to hear. But here I am, standing under the fluorescent light of Elite a little outside of Rome’s city center. Today marks my first venture…