I can’t believe we’ve been in Firenze for almost a month now, the time has flown by! I have definitely settled into a routine here and it has started to feel like home. My apartment is in a good location, it’s a 25 minute walk from classes which really gets my steps in every day!…
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Week Four of Firenze!⚜️
We’re already on week four; it’s definitely going even quicker than I ever anticipated! So far, my neighborhood and living situation have been pretty ideal. I live on Via Degli Artisti, which is about a mile from classes and about 25 minutes from the city center of Firenze. We have tried to venture around our…
Benvenuti a Firenze!
My name is Claire Dziedzic, and I’m from Rochester, New York. I am a junior at Pitt Business studying Global Management, and I’m currently pursuing the 3+3 program with Pitt Law, where I plan to attend law school after graduating this spring. Back at Pitt I am involved as a member in Women in Law,…
Ciao Flo
Ciao! My name is Angelina Papagni and I am from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which is about five hours east of Pittsburgh. I am a senior studying finance at Pitt and I also have a Certificate in Leadership and Ethics. Academic wise I am interested in accounting, finance and real estate and have completed an internship in…
Bye For Now Firenze!
Wow! Writing this final blog post means that my experience of studying abroad is coming to an end. If you were to ask me how I was feeling when I wrote my first blog, I would have said confused, excited, and overwhelmed. But as I sit here today, I would say that I feel so…
How Lucky Am I
Before leaving for my semester abroad, I cried as I packed up my apartment and said goodbye to my friends staying in Pittsburgh; sad that I wasn’t sure the next time I’d see them. While in college, chapters open and close like clockwork, so I’ve gotten used to goodbyes. While I turn the next page,…
My Final Moments and Reflections in Florence
In the last few days of the abroad semester, I look around Florence feeling grateful, excited, and sad at the same time. A bittersweet goodbye to a wonderful city and community, I reflect on all the ways I have changed since coming January 8th. It is safe to say, studying abroad was one of the…
A letter to my pre-departure self…
A letter to my pre-departure self, You are about to embark on an incredible journey of once-in-a-lifetime experiences! You will travel up and down Italy, from Sicily to Venice. You will hike to the highest peak in Interlaken, watch the Eifel Tower sparkle, attend an opera in Vienna, and celebrate Easter with the Pope at…
Keep Saying Yes!
To my pre-Florence self, Everyone says that you will learn a lot about yourself, and you will. . . just not in the ways you might expect. You won’t necessarily learn the meaning of life or anything like that. Instead, you learn about if you actually like Italian food, how many steps you can walk…
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