I’ve now spent about 3 weeks in Milano so I believed I’d recap!
Arrival
I landed in Milan, Italy at the morning of Monday, January 22. My flights went easily and my baggage didn’t get misplaced, so reward Jesus for that! I then taxied to my condo with some folks in my program and after a excursion of the construction and unpacking, IES handled us to dinner at an area pizzeria. Then, it used to be off to mattress! I used to be exhausted after an extended day and a part of go back and forth with little sleep.
Week 1
The next day to come we started orientation through finding out how you can use the metro to get to the IES heart, in addition to a excursion in their new heart construction, and a few informational shows.
The remainder of my week consisted of go back and forth round Milan together with visiting the Duomo for the primary time & stumbling throughout a ravishing church, too.
To finish the week, I attended my first IES box shuttle the place we have been bused to a parmesan cheese a balsamic vinegar manufacturing facility. I used to be in a position to take a look at a balsamic vinegar that used to be elderly for 100 years – how loopy is that! We concluded the day through going to the Ferrari museum, and that used to be very cool.
Week 2
I started my two-week Italian extensive elegance. We met each day Monday thru Friday for two.5 hours on the IES Heart to be informed some elementary vocabulary, verb conjugations, greetings, pronunciation, and numbers. It used to be in point of fact a laugh to get to grasp a few of my classmates – one in every of them is from Wisconsin too!
My 2d weekend in Europe I spent in London! My roommate at Hope, Macy, is finding out at IES London so it used to be pretty to look her there and excursion the town she’s been residing in! Coincidentally, 3 different Hope scholars spent their iciness damage in London so it used to be relatively the Hope Faculty reunion — shoutout to Elsie, Clara, and Haley! Macy took me to nearly each main appeal in London in simply in the future — that shuttle has been my favourite reminiscence of my out of the country revel in thus far.
Week 3
Our Italian extensive elegance endured this week and on Tuesday IES handled us to a mild lunch at an area cafe so lets observe our Italian with the vocabulary we had discovered thus far. It used to be a good fortune!
Along with all-day box journeys, IES Milan additionally places in combination a listing of “bucket listing” pieces that scholars can join. On Tuesday, I attended an Italian cinema to observe a film (with English subtitles) that used to be fully filmed in Milan. The film used to be referred to as L’ultima notte di Amore (Amore’s Closing Evening). It used to be an exciting film with a charming plotline that saved us engaged the entire time. Whilst we watched the film, we have been served a conventional Italian aperitivo.
That’s fascinated with now! I will be able to’t consider I’ve already been right here for 3 weeks, however I’m so excited for the adventures I’ve deliberate. Arrivederci e a presto!
