As my schedule picks up and starts getting busier, I find myself in the mist of a fairly fresh bliss of pure momentum. This blog will be two in one, for one reason and one reason only; I have been living in the country that I fell in love with made my dream to live here come true. To be spending time exploring and going to school doing what I truly enjoy doing/learning about, that for me is the definition of bliss.
A lot happened the second week of me being here in Firenze. let’s talk about the culture at my new school. I go once a week each class is two hours and thirty minutes long. So far, the first two weeks went by super slow. My internship? That is an everyday commitment, and the expectations of my video production skills are beyond rooftop high. That is the beauty of it though, if you are not excited to get constructive criticism something is not right; I finished my first video assignment and it unfortunately did not get approved. Days of shooting content, hours of editing and planning for it to get shut down. Due to this, I realized that this is probably how the real world will treat my work, and the only way to get better is to take the advice and fix it. I will create a better video and it will get approved.
Following my hectic week of work, my roommates and I decided to explore the city of Pisa. We bought our tickets for a whole day, and we learned quickly that many of these cities don’t need that long to explore. The chills down my spine as the wind hit my back made me realize how I would probably be walking to class back in Colorado, but instead I was about to go up the leaning tower of Pisa…ridiculous to even complain. Anyways here is a cute picture of my roommates and i. ( PS. for lunch I had a veggie pizza, I am still on the hunt for the best pizza here up North of Italy… still haven’t found it).
Week three was a slow week, I was still playing around in my internship with my video ideas/planning. Trying to figure out this small yet big city I am now living in. I got to explore a little bit of while I was in my internship hours, before getting my video rejected I was told to get lost. I still don’t think I’ve fully done it, because I find myself being scared. Being a female traveling alone is already nerve-wrecking which sucks, because there is so much I want to see and experience, yet I find myself stuck, suffocating.
I am adding “getting lost” on my list to-do, no deadline to it. I want it to be spontaneously and organic. I do not want to get told to get lost nor do I want to plan it, I want to randomly take a different route home or to school and have the excuse that I simply got lost. Only then can I say that I have truly experienced Florence.
This week was my birthday week, February 13th. I was a little homesick because I always spend my birthday with my best friends and this year I didn’t get that. my roommates made it so special that it didn’t hit me as bad. They surprised me with balloons and home-made cupcakes (yeah home-made!), I mentioned to them that I needed a small pullover blanket and they went out of their way to get me one as my birthday present. Truly heart warming.
We decided to spend our weekend in the two most romantic cities in Florence (yes it is possible for one of the most romantic countries to have specific cities that I consider romantic). Verona, known to be the home of Romeo and Juliette. This place holds a special place in my heart, since it was one of the first cities I visited my first time here in Italy. This place made me start falling in love with this beautiful country. This place, gave me hope back then for true love and it did it once again 6 years later. Mind-blowing. I don’t know what it is about this place, but its history and magic is truly one of kind, the butterflies I feel every time I am in Verona; never did I think I would feel the same and I did.
After roaming Verona we made our way to Venice, before the big carnival weekend. We still got to experience people dressed in steampunk and in vintage opera costumes. I did not have the most comfortable experience in Venice, but I truly hope to go back and enjoy it more like I did 6 years ago.
That’s it for these past two weeks. Hope you guys enjoy reading my journey so far. Little Latin girl signing off for now! CIAO!
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