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Souvenirs I got in Italy!

Here are all the souvenirs I got in Italy and a little bit in Greece! I am excited to have parts of Italy with me and at my real home in Nebraska! It was so much fun traveling everywhere knowing that I have been to places with so many people to dream to go! I really wanted to not spend too much money but I still wanted long-lasting memories in the form of an item. I was happy to still be able to get the “touristy” items but also was able to get some unique items as well!

A Letter from Quarantine

When I arrived stateside on the 17th of March and the airport’s medical screening went much faster than expected, I had a while to wait before my sister arrived to retrieve me. During the wait, I chatted with a dear friend via good old-fashioned phone call. She had returned home to Maryland from her study abroad program in Paris a few days previous to our call (after enduring an even more rapid and frenzied turn-around, pack-everything-up, & leave-the-city experience than I did).

I had to Leave My Study Abroad..

I unfortunately had to leave my study abroad in Rome Italy where I was doing a full time internship and taking an Italian class. I was able to stay there a full month and then had to go home because of the Coronavirus spreading across the world. It was in Italy before it was in the US and I got asked to leave from my home school. I actually chose to leave the day they emailed me to come home so I was able to tell them I was already on my way home. The main reason I was asked to leave was because Italy overall went to a level 3 travel advisory.

Living in Italy during the Coronavirus for Study Abroad

Here is an update of my while I was in Italy during the early parts of it spreading in Italy this was 3rd to last week in February 2020. It was such a crazy time. Within this week I flew all the way back home to the US and then a few days later the country shut down. For the first week before I left all of our classes and my internship was online. I was getting worried because it was for precautions but from reading the news I knew it was bigger than that.

A Week in my Life Living in Rome | The Colosseum, The Vatican, & Food!

Here was the second part of my first week in Rome! We really took advantage of not having classes yet and traveled around a lot and explored the city we were living in for the next few months! I saw the Colosseum which was so breathtaking! We also saw cart and horses on the curbside that were giving people rides. Luckily, the friends that I went with wanted to take pictures and I got some beautiful pictures in front of the Colosseum as well as the sunset for that day.

20+ Hours of Travel to Italy!

Here was my long journey of traveling to Rome Italy for my study abroad trip all alone! I had a layover in Chicago for 6 hours and it was a LONG time till I finally reached Italy! Luckily, I met some really great people and had such a great time in Italy! I would 100% do it again and hope to do it sometime in the future! I started in Nebraska, went to Chicago, from Chicago I went to Germany and from Germany arrived in Italy!

A Vacation Taken Moments Before Disaster

Even though I've unfortunately had to return to the United States due to the current epidemic, I still have many stories to tell about my experiences in Europe. As you will undoubtedly be able to tell, my friends and I narrowly escaped a pretty sticky situation by accidentally scheduling our flights at the exact right moments as we embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe during our winter break in late February.