Couldn’t be more wonderful! (:

Besides opting to live on my own, I would say the experience was entirely unique because I was working in an environment where the people only spoke Italian, and I was handling tasks that were unfamiliar to me, so I had to learn quite quickly and adjust to being the odd one out. That was a very challenging thing for me, even through the end, but overall, I came here to do this; I came here to break out of my shell and do something new, to see where this takes me in life. My internship experience will build my résumé and open up job opportunities for me in the future. The only regret I have is staying in some nights or weekends when I could have gone out more, but I also wish that the program had planned more city visits for us and had given us a longer Italian course so that we could have become more fluent in the language during our stay. In the end, I would do this all over again, but very differently: I would have opted to stay with roommates, I would have chosen a different work environment, and I would have traveled more.