IES Abroad gave us a little over a week for spring break, so my friends and I decided to go to Italy! I just came home relaxed, stuffed, and completely happy. A week was the perfect amount of time to explore part of the country, because it gave us time to really enjoy the places we went to.
I was so happy to see my family for a few days earlier this month! Mom, Mommom (my grandma), Aunt Pat, and my two cousins all flew out for a long weekend spent in Dublin. Spending this time with them could not have made me any happier.
Lately, I've been writing a series of poems and titling them each "Metamorphosis", happily constricted in the idea that this part of my life is exactly that: a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means. (Thank you dictionary.com.)
It's a beautiful, healthy process.
Many of the European and French students that I have talked to think I am absolutely crazy when I tell them how much traveling that I plan on doing. To me, it doesn’t seem like that much since I’m only here for one semester.
Three years ago when I came to Italy for the first time, I was amazed by the city of Rome and knew that I had to return in the future. I threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain, wishing to return. Exactly three years later to the day, I was throwing another coin in the Trevi Fountain.
Customers started saying goodbye to me last week, not knowing if they’d stop in before I left for Germany. I was lucky enough to pick up a job at a local café (shout-out to all the amazing amazing amazing people who work there!!!) to compensate for what I imagined to be an immeasurable time I was going to be home this break. I’d met the regulars who came in to get their coffee, and just as I was getting to know them, they were saying goodbye as I told them I was headed off to study abroad.
Some people might not belive me. But I've got pretty strong evidence that my life could be a movie. The lighting, the staging, the music - almost too perfect. Especially with the introduction of an idea like Paris.
Hello from Belgium!
