March 9-11th The three days prior to our spring break was a workshop with a university in Rome called Roma TRE. We were divided into groups of four, two Iowa State Students and two Italian students from Roma TRE. The…
The Last Few Weekends
Over most of the weekends in February, I didn’t really travel too far. We had a couple busy weeks of school stuff so it seemed better to just stay in or around Rome to stay on top of everything. Some…
A Look Into One of the Classes I’m Taking
ARCH 486 – Made in Italy (Really bad name for it) This is kind of an interesting class that we have which we have more aptly named the “neighborhoods class.” This class is mostly student run where we are split…
Rome apartment
I’d say I’m pretty well settled in here in Rome, so I thought I would show what our living conditions are here. Our whole study abroad program is divided into four apartments that have eight people in each one. The…
First Day
We started out the first full day in Rome with a walking tour of the area around our studio from one of our professors. She showed us around some important places and gave us some useful information. One thing that…
24 Hours to Rome
Well the day to leave for Rome finally came, and it was pretty surreal to think that I am going to be 5000? Miles away from home for 4 months. It was ‘twenty four ish’ hour travel day…