We kicked off March by taking a weekend trip to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I didn’t really do a ton of research before we got there, but it was probably one of the coolest cities I’ve ever been to. It…
Roma TRE Workshop
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…
Tivoli
Saturday February 20th Our trip to Tivoli was a pretty last minute decision, but it ended up working out really well since it’s only about an hour or less train ride just north east of Rome. The two main things…
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…
South Field Trip to Naples Area
Day 1: We had our first of two field trips February 3rd through 7th which was to the southern part of Italy. Our first stop was a huge palace and garden called Palazzo Reale. We ended up getting an impromptu tour…
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…
Road Trip to Todi
This post is kind of late, but the first few days of this week were pretty busy with school work actually (yes I am doing a little bit of work over here). Anyway last weekend my friend…
Florence
Well we started our trip to Florence this weekend by taking a regional train there since it was half the price of the high speed option. The train ride took about three hours and forty-five minutes since it stopped pretty…
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…