The thing I was looking forward to the most when I found out I was accepted to study abroad in Rome this semester wasn’t the food, the ruins, or the wine tastings. It was Carnival. Feel free to criticize me for being a serious dork but something about partying in Venice wearing masks all day and checking out the insane costumes all around you is irresistible. Carnival is basically a combination of America’s halloween and Mardi Gras.
I am furiously attempting to finish all of my work before my sister gets here on Sunday. I could not be more excited—- I am planning all of the sites we are going to hit and cafes we will eat at— but I am a little bit stressed. I have a surprising amount of work and it is all research papers which take a significant amount of time. Oh well. I have also been exercising my Pandora account and watching How I Met Your Mother during my breaks.
But first BREAKING NEWS on the Senegal election update: There will be another election at the end of the month between the incumbent Wade and Macky Sall who received the second highest number of votes. Let’s hope Senegal generates enough votes to finally get Wade out of here.
It
is of the utmost likelihood that you will use a bathroom during your study
abroad experience and there is a chance you may be confronted by a foreign
object inside. I certainly was as I opened the bathroom door.
It’s hard to truly say you are an American study abroad student unless you are travelling all of the time. I have done my fair share of travelling around Scotland and exploring Edinburgh, but I spent the past week in Paris and Barcelona with one of my closest friends from GW, Liz, and two of my flatmates, Gabrielle and Emily.