{"id":12885,"date":"2018-03-30T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2018-03-30T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:32:24","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=12885","title":{"rendered":"The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am <em><strong>freaking out!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As of Friday March 30th, I have 28 days left until I go back to Chicago and only two weeks left into in my internship with The Roman Guy. There is sooooooo much I need to do before I leave.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">The Work Plan<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By next week I need to have 4,000 followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theromanfoodie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">The Roman Foodie Instagram\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and I&#8217;m at 3,857 followers. I never thought it could be <em>this\u00a0<\/em>difficult to increase followers. Last week I was only able to get a bit over 20. So how do I accomplish this? Bulk following? Spending hours sifting through profiles for people who might be interested in this company, liking photos, commenting on posts but it is so time consuming. I basically have to do both. I really want to get there, though.<\/p>\n<p>I only have one blog post left to write and it is for the May 2018 Events Posts. Since I&#8217;m done in two weeks, my draft has to be done the Monday of my last week just in case there is anything left to do.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I just finished the April 2018 Events Post that you can find<span style=\"color: #ff6600\"> <a style=\"color: #ff6600\" href=\"https:\/\/theromanguy.com\/italy-travel-blog\/events\/events-in-rome-april-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span> and Brunch in Rome that will go up next week. Since working on all of these blog posts and with wordpress much more often, I think I&#8217;ve gotten so much better at organizing my posts to increase readability and make them a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">The School Plan<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12889 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1-203x270.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2904-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In all honesty school is a disaster. I have a B in Italian which isn&#8217;t terrible. I have a C in In<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">ternational Monetary Relations, but I&#8217;m at a 79% so that is going to be easy to bring up to a B n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">o problem, but I have a D in Finance. At a 61% I have no clue how I&#8217;m supposed to bring that up at all. I&#8217;m n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">ot too sure at all what happened there. Especially because for my last exam, I actually understood what I was doing but when I got to the exam I had no clue what I was being asked to do. Usually, I get all A&#8217;s and B&#8217;s, but you know what, everyone has a bad semester. I&#8217;m not sure what my grade is for my internship class, but I think it&#8217;s good. My only worry is finance. Worst case I&#8217;ll retake it another semester. What I realized this semester is that when a person hits rock bottom, there&#8217;s nowhere to go but up, so eventually it&#8217;ll be A-Okay! There is one homework assignment for finance and it&#8217;s an excel spreadsheet to try to boost our grade. Then there&#8217;s one more exam. So, at this point all I can do is try my best. I&#8217;ve got my internship presentation for next week and two papers as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12888 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_2803-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>The Life Plan (Post JFRC)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beyond school, beyond my internship, what&#8217;s the plan? I worked in Marketing while in Rome and I learned so much! My next step is to try sales just to see how it goes. Two of my close friends work at Michael Kors downtown Chicago, so I wanted to try that out. $12.00 plus commission sounds pretty solid for a summer job considering my last summer job was only $11.00 and selling pizza. I&#8217;m scheduling my class schedule for next semester April 17th. I think before I head back, I need to take a me weekend. I booked a trip to Santorini, Greece to see a little bit more of the world before I head back to America. Surprisingly round trip tickets right to the island were only 160 euro as opposed to 300-1000 euros which is the range any other weekend besides the one I&#8217;m traveling on. I think essentially, the plan is to just play things by ear and do what makes me happy as I go along.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am freaking out! As of Friday March 30th, I have 28 days left until I go back to Chicago and only two weeks left into in my internship with The Roman Guy. There is sooooooo much I need to do before I leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,94],"tags":[313,461,515],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","category-john-felice-rome-center-global-centers","category-john-felice-rome-center","tag-internship","tag-rome","tag-studyabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}