All right, so here is attempt two at starting this blog. I started to write a post a few days ago, but as would happen, I got sidetracked and left it. Now, it\u2019s a bit unusable since it basically says that I have four days to go and have not packed yet. Well, that\u2019s all changed because now I have zero days to go and have packed! I am actually sitting in Newark airport right at this very moment. I have a good six hour layover here (my flight landed early) so I am bound and determined to find some place to access the wifi and update. I\u2019d really love to watch some Merlin too, but we\u2019ll see if that happens.<\/p>\n
If you couldn\u2019t tell by the title, I am heading off to Rome for the semester. My school has a campus there and I will be spending four months there. Just a little<\/em> excited about that. I am a journalism and history double major and will be spending my time there mostly studying the latter. What better place to study history than in the Eternal City?<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on right now. I\u2019m sitting in a lonely airport terminal fervishly wishing I had wifi so that I could relieve some of my boredom. I\u2019ve already taken one flight and have two more to go. Tonight\u2019s flight will be my longest at just over eight hours. I\u2019m heading to Munich where in the morning I will make my final connection into Rome. I think I\u2019m feeling a little bit of everything right now. I\u2019m excited, happy, hopeful, a little nervous and genuinely looking forward to what\u2019s about to happen.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t say for certain, but there\u2019s definitely a good chance that I am going to change and I am looking forward to it. Who knows what\u2019s going to happen, but I\u2019m definitely going to make the best of it. There\u2019s not much more to say for now, but I hope that you\u2019ll hang around for the ride. I have a feeling that it\u2019s going to be pretty spectacular!<\/p>\n EDIT: As you can probably tell, I didn\u2019t find internet access in the airport. And it\u2019s been a bit crazy since I got here, but I\u2019m getting a chance to post it now! That means I\u2019m officially in Rome! Have been for three days now. Let\u2019s just say that I\u2019m already in love. I haven\u2019t done much venturing out beyond the neighborhood I live in, but it\u2019s one beautiful place.<\/p>\n The people are so friendly even if we are obnoxious Americans. Getting a taxi at the airport was a fun experience since there were a couple of drivers who wanted me to ride with them as soon as I walked out. Just as a note, don\u2019t ever accept a ride from someone offering! Those aren\u2019t official cab drivers and they can charge you a boatload of money to get anywhere. Always use the taxi stand.<\/p>\n I used my first bit of Italian when giving my driver directions (it was just our address, but so what?). Somehow, despite the fact that I was tired, I managed to take in and enjoy the beautiful countryside. I started to get worried that he might not be taking me on the most direct route, but didn\u2019t have too much to fear. I made it to school for about \u20ac50. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n After that there was just a bunch of paperwork and picture taking for our special JFRC IDs (after three plane rides I looked totally awesome). This is getting to be a long first post, so I\u2019ll leave you with the fact that I somehow made it through the rest of the day, moved in, met my roommate and stayed awake. Needless to say, I had an early night.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s to being in Roma and starting my great adventure!<\/p>\n [For those of you reading from Loyola, I got a late start in posting here. This is from a couple of weeks ago. I’ll add the rest soon. ^_^]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting my adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}