I have been thinking about how to frame my first blog post from Florence since I arrived Wednesday afternoon, but the overwhelming nature of our first few days in a new country has left me too in awe to really focus in on one specific matter.
To start things off though, I'll share a little about our Via Del Moro apartment in Florence's historical center.
The neighborhood we're in seems like a great location. We're in the midst of busy streets a few blocks away from the Duomo and the Arno River. We're also only a few blocks away from Palazzo Rucellai, which is where about half our classes will be held when we start Monday.
Our apartment itself, after a considerable stair climb, is the perfect setup for everything we'll be needing for this semester including a full kitchen, a living room with a couple couches, two bathrooms, and four bedrooms for the seven guys who will be living here for the spring. Not pictured below is a picture of our balcony (Which is strangely where our washing machine is located) overlooking the apartment complex's center because I keep forgetting to take a picture of it during the day.
To start things off though, I'll share a little about our Via Del Moro apartment in Florence's historical center.
The neighborhood we're in seems like a great location. We're in the midst of busy streets a few blocks away from the Duomo and the Arno River. We're also only a few blocks away from Palazzo Rucellai, which is where about half our classes will be held when we start Monday.
Our apartment itself, after a considerable stair climb, is the perfect setup for everything we'll be needing for this semester including a full kitchen, a living room with a couple couches, two bathrooms, and four bedrooms for the seven guys who will be living here for the spring. Not pictured below is a picture of our balcony (Which is strangely where our washing machine is located) overlooking the apartment complex's center because I keep forgetting to take a picture of it during the day.
The apartment is made up of three UConn guys (me, Kevin, and Pat), three guys from Penn State, and then the one guy studying abroad in Florence from Quinnipiac. All weekend we've been exploring, taking boy band style pictures on top of the Duomo (Photos to come), and getting to know our new city as much as we can. Hopefully, Italian wifi willing, I'll be posting some of the hundreds of photos from this weekend's adventures. | |