Tranquilo I’m here- in Bologna, Italy- and everything is beautiful. The city, built by the pope in the 1000’s (yes, the 11th century), is nicknamed La Rossa- because everything is red from the bricks to the roofs (photo below). I’ve looked pretty idiotic so far- mostly because as far as the natives can tell, my Italian …
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Free to Fail
When I was studying abroad in Italy, so many friends and family members constantly checked in on me. Inevitably, their top question was always, “How’s your Italian?!” I would think of my social interactions with my roommates and say, “Yes, in fact I did talk to them about 7th Heaven” (they absolutely loved 7th Heaven, …