La vita (e Firenze) è bella

Buonasera amici!

I hope you all are having a great semester so far! I arrived in Florence, Italy on Tuesday with the Syracuse University in Florence program, and this week is orientation. I am the only Bucknell student doing this program, which is a little intimidating, but I am already making friends with students from universities all over the United States.

Tomorrow I will be registering for my five classes that I will be taking this semester. A lot of the classes that are offered go on day trips to museums, other placesin Italy, and even cities outside of Italy. I am looking forward to doing some traveling on the weekends both for class and for fun!
Yesterday I met my host mother, Anna, and her daughter, as well as my new roommate. My host mother does not speak any English so we can only speak Italian to communicate. I will also be taking Italian as one of my classes, which will help me pick up the language more quickly.

So far, I have done a ton of walking (wearing comfortable shoes is a must), so I am definitely burning off the pasta that I have been eating (which is delicious). This evening I had time to go running before dinner and passed by lo stadio where ACF Fiorentina plays calcio (football/soccer). Hopefully I can get to one of the games while I am here.

I will be posting pics to Snapchat and Instagram on a daily basis so feel free to add/follow me!

Ciao Ciao!

Steph Larkin