Submitted by Shae Muller on the 2018 winter session program in Italy sponsored by the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and the Department of English…
Ciao from Italia! I am currently staying on a campus in Volterra. It has been a crazy week full of learning and A LOT of pasta. It is much different here from my hometown in South Jersey. I am really not use to having so many carbs at every meal. Don’t get me wrong, carbs (and chocolate) are my favorite type of food group; however, I may need to change up my lifestyle while I am abroad to handle this extreme intake of pastas and breads. I have never been in a foreign country for more than a week, so I have never had to change my ways and adapt fully to a new culture. I think it will be a bit tricky to modify myself, but I am excited to embrace this Italian culture surrounding me.
