Finnbar Shortfall
BA, 2019Ìý
Italian
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Milan has been absolutely fantastic these last few months. It's taken a little bit of time to assimilate and get the layout of the city, etc, but now after the winter break I am really beginning to feel like a local. My Liceo where I am working at is really nice, good students and very helpful and nice teachers as well. It certainly took a little while to get the hang of teaching but I think I have improved over these past few months. I have met a great group of other American interns here, and we have all gotten along very well, and they have been great travelling partners! Around Milan over the past few months I have visited Parma, Bergamo, Torino, a town in the Alps called Sauze D'Oulx (with much cheaper skiing than CO), among a few others. I spent some time in Rome with my family there, and then was able to visit a cousin of mine in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as spending the holidays with family in Ireland. My Mom came to visit just this past weekend so I was able to do a few more tourist activities with her. We got a spot to go see the Cenacolo, which was absolutely incredible and well worth it even after being shuffled out after only 15 minutes. I have also been able to see plenty of the works we examined in our class at the Pinacoteca di Brera. Specifically to see a few of Canaletto's works up close was really incredible, much better than on a computer screen! I am still going through a few lists of things to see in Milan and around Italy, even though I have done and seen a lot, it feels as though I have barely scratched the surface! I have attached a few photos of my travels so far. 2 Pictures of myself at the Bergamo "Alta Citta", the stunning San Siro Stadio, the view from our hotel in the Alps, a few of the works we studied that I have now seen up close and personal, and the armor room at the museo Bagatti Valsecchi, which might be my personal favorite museum in Milan. Hope all is well in ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® and ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®! I can't say enough how much of an incredible experience this is!
-Finnbar
January, 2020