Wow, already month 3!
The first week of November, I traveled to Turin, Italy for a class excursion. This trip was for my Sports and Society class. While there we visited the superga where all of the Torino soccer team died in 1939. The site is still preserved and visited by fans every day. Every year, there is a march back up the hill to the place of the crash. Throughout Turin there are pictures of the team every where. They were the best Italian soccer league to ever live. Turin had some of the best Italian food I ate all of my trip.
The second weekend, I traveled to Switzerland with my friends Ali and Abby. We then met up with Ali’s friends from Wesleyan University that were studying abroad in Amsterdam. While there we ate at a fondue restaurant and went to many chocolate factories. It was very cold, but was not snowing.
I then traveled to Bologna, Italy with my Italian class for a weekend excursion. While there we were only allowed to speak Italian. They made us order food and ask strangers for directions. Friday night we went to a restaurant that you brought your own apertivos and they provided the drinks. Bologna is known as the college town of Italy. There were many street performers and young people. If I did not study in Rome, I would have wanted to study here.
For Thanksgiving weekend, my friend Abby and I traveled to Greece. We stayed in Athen’s and got to see a lot of historical places. I liked greek food because they offered many gluten free options. The only bad thing about Greece was when I broke my only pair of shoes. I went to a tattoo parlor and had them tape my shoe back together.
The next weekend, I bought tickets to go to London, but ended up not going and stayed to meet my friend’s friends from Bates. I loved how I meet so many new people while abroad.