Italy from the beginning

Studying Aboard is something that I never thought would be possible. Maybe in a dream. But I got to live in a small community in Italy and study 3 courses. This experience was something that is still shocking. But I will try and put them into words. 

The beginning, I lived in a small community called Conegliano, Italy. Which is about a forty minute drive from Venice. I travelled there with 15 students. None of whom I had met beforehand. This experience was about to get crazy. 

I was going to live in a country that I hadn’t been to before with brand new people I met maybe about 30 minutes before the first plane to Italy. It was about to get weird.

Thankfully everyone who I travelled with turned out to be a great person. But more about the people at a later time.

The first day of travelling was busy, we had three flights to get us to the final destination which was Marco-Polo airport in Venice, Italy. We spent about 6 hours waiting around in the Heathrow airport, with this wait, we found some food to eat and some outlets in order to pull in all the electronics and maybe catch a nap.

This would be where I asked someone I barely knew to be my roommate for the next month. We had bonded over Facebook profiles. This would turn out to be a great decision later on in the trip. We had only known each other a few hours at this point. But I guess my assumptions of her worked out to be the best roommate pairing ever.

Finally we arrived, we were poked into buses that would ship us to our final destination. An Ex-convent in Conegliano, Italy. A place I would shortly call home. 

The first night we arrived, we had our first taste of true Italian pizza and culture. We ate at a restaurant called Alfergo. Let me begin, this is nothing like american style pizza. This was delicious and an art. I ate at this same restaurant about three more times. Just delicious. 

We were introduced to the local wine of this region, which is Prosecco. Now not being much of a wine drinker, I expected to not like it. But it’s to be said that this bubbly wine is delicious and should be tasted by everyone. If you are someone who does not like wine, this would be a good start for you. So fantastic. Each one of us had some to drink and experience Italy. 

This is only the first blog on Italy, many more to come. 

Love ya lots

“J”

This was the view from my room <3