An Open LEtter to Rome
It has been four months since I was lucky enough to stroll along your cobbled streets. Three years living amongst your ruins and buildings (that are thousands of years older than my entire home country) was nowhere near enough. You certainly chewed me up and spit me right back out, leaving me feeling all sorts of emotions....
Contradictions
Picture this: Red folding tables and chairs made of wood line the exterior of a small pub. They sit on the evenly placed charcoal gray cobblestones that cover the ground. The air is crisp, fall has definitely set in in this part of the world. People stroll by on their evening passeggiata...
Table for One
I look back at who I was in high school, and I always had to be doing something or be surrounded by people. I did not like to be alone. If I was physically alone, I was on my phone texting my friends, or scrolling through my news feed. I equated alone with lonely...
Six Months
Six months ago I moved to Rome, Italy. I moved over 4,000 miles away from the familiarity of home to follow my dreams. I packed my life into two 49.5lb bags (still proud of that feat), and boarded American Airlines flight 110 from Chicago to Rome. I was lucky enough tosleep for most of that flight...
Twenty two X Twenty Two
Twenty two is a strange age. Maybe I feel like it is strange because I am still correcting myself when people ask how old I am. "Twenty one, sorry twenty two!" Twenty two was rather anti-climatic after the debacle that turning twenty one was a year ago...
72 Hours in Tokyo
The one word I would use to describe the way I travel is spontaneous. This crazy adventure to Japan was planned in about seven days time. When my mom told me she would be flying to Tokyo-Narita, Japan during the month of January I knew I had to tag along. I still had two weeks off until...
Termini
Few places are better for people watching than train stations. Especially Italian train stations. Countless bodies moving about. Some walking, some running, some looking upwards at the large arrivi e partenze-- arrivals and departures-- board to find their platform...