One week until the adventure begins!

First of all, since you're reading this, I want to thank you for visiting my blog!  I figured this would be an easy way for my family and friends to keep up with me while I'm abroad for the semester.  As you all know, I leave for Italy in one week, and I couldn't be more excited!  I'm also getting nervous as the departure date gets closer, but I'm sure that will disappear once I get over there.  Actually, most of my nervousness will disappear once I get my suitcases packed and I'm finally ready to go!

For the past several years, I've had a growing fascination with Italy--its people, language, culture, and of course, its food!  So I feel very blessed to have this wonderful opportunity to live and study in Italy for the next four months, and I couldn't be more grateful to my parents for their love and support in everything I do.  Naturally, as people have found out over the past year that I'm going abroad, I've received many tips about living and traveling in Italy.  I would say the two most common tips I've been given are: 1. watch out for pickpocketers and 2. watch out for Italian men.  All I can say is I will try my best and thank you to everyone who has shared their knowledge and experiences with me!   

In case you're wondering, the name of my blog, "la dolce vita", means "the sweet life" in Italian, which I think will sum up these next four months!

Stay tuned, my next post will be from Rome!

Until next time,
Allison