So I know it’s been awhile but I’ve been all over the place these past few weeks. Amsterdam was amazing! The city was so beautiful and it was unlike any place I had ever been before! My best friend, Jenn also came to visit me in Rome for a week and that was so much fun! We did so much of the stuff that I hadn’t yet had a chance to do in Rome, like going to a Papal Audience at the Vatican. Right after Jenn left I headed to Interlaken, Switzerland for a weekend of snowboarding in the Swiss Alps! I think that of all the trips I have taken this semester, Switzerland was my absolute favorite. For starters, the landscape was breath taking! The ski conditions were out of this world, making anywhere in New England seem like a hill. Just to get up the mountain we had to take a train ride and then a chair lift as well. On some mountains, the runs lasted almost an hour which is so different from what I’m used to back home and the best part was that there was no ice… just miles of fresh powder! It was great for my two days of snowboarding and the one night I went nightsledding with all my friends! 
I think one of my favorite things about studying abroad is that the people you meet are all so eager to get to know you and just like when I went to Sorrento and met my group of friends, I met more study-abroad students in Switzerland that immediately felt like people I’d know for a long time. I’ve been lucky to meet so many new people in my travels, all with different backgrounds and interesting stories to tell. One of the hardest things is going to be saying goodbye to all these people and not knowing if and when I will ever see them again.
It’s unbelievable that in just one week I’ll be packing up my bags and heading back to the United States. To be honest, I can’t even think about this without getting upset. Here I am, thousands of miles away, with all these great new friends and a life I love in an incredible city, and I have to go back home. What an incredible experience this has been, one that I couldn’t even begin to explain. It’s just one of those things that you would have to experience on your own to really get it.
I also know that this experience has inspired me to go home, work extremely hard for the next year and half to save up my money so that as soon I graduate, I can embark on my next journey. There is a good chance that I may actually come back to Europe to live in Florence, Italy and work there for a few months and continue traveling throughout Europe.
Studying abroad has certainly opened the door to so many new opportunities and I feel like I’m looking at my future in a completely different light then I was four months ago. I can’t stress enough how incredible my time here has been or how I think this is something everyone needs to do. This once in a lifetime opportunity was exactly what I needed in my life and from here on out I will always love Europe and especially Italy.
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