Rachel Betters

**This is something a little different—a piece I wrote for my travel writing class at SRISA using an interview with a fellow student. However, since it’s related to study abroad, I thought I would share …

Everyone has an image of Italy. Pizza, pasta, wine, villas and vineyards, art and architecture, “la dolce vita.” A Venetian gondola, the Roman Colosseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, maybe a Tuscan house in the …

Here I am, in Florence, Italy, finally writing this blog entry because my feet are sore from a week of adventures and the wi-fi has disconnected. It hasn’t been two weeks yet since my plane …

Fresh pasta with olive oil, cobblestone streets lined with rugged yellow walls, a sunset over the Piazzale Michelangelo… These are the things I dream of as I haphazardly pack clothes and toiletries into my suitcase …