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WE LEAVE IN THREE WEEKS!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, we’re only a little excited. And we hope you are too! This blog is the perfect place to keep up with our class while we’re in Italy! But first our group has to survive… I mean, complete 7 weeks of classes at Furman. Today we start the three-week-countdown to departure! So while we’re waiting here’s a little bit more about us…
We are 23 Furman students (21 girls and 2 boys to be exact!) and 4 Furman professors dedicating our spring semester to the in-depth study of Italy through History, Communications, Classics, and English. Sticking to the Liberal Arts tradition boasted by many aspects of Furman University, our group is first and foremost DIVERSE. About half of us are History, English, and Communications majors. And the rest represent areas like: Business, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Health Science, and Biology! Regardless of these differences, all of us have come together this term to study and explore the country of Italy: the history, the rhetoric, the influences that shaped its people and land, and the impact it has had on the the world.
Before we leave, we’ll have exams to take, presentations to make, and papers to turn in… But in three short weeks, we’ll board a plane to Rome and start the adventure we’ve been anticipating since last spring. Once in Italy, we will visit over 20 cities in 51 days (that’s just a tad over 7 weeks abroad by the way) experiencing everything from Ancient Rome to Facist Florence and Modern Milan!
We leave on February 26th and return on April 16th. In that time, we will be updating this blog to document our adventures. Don’t worry, we’ll post lots of pictures too! We hope you enjoy traveling through Italy with us! If you have questions or requests, please feel free to comment below.
Thanks so much for reading! We’ll post again soon. 🙂
~Rachel von Gnechten
Blog Team
Italy 2012