26 Feb | Lauren Kelly | No Comments
Last weekend our entire study group took a trip to Prague, Czech Republic! We had heard about a great organization called pm2am that provides students with affordably planned trips to different destinations across Europe. Mannheim, Germany was the departure city and from there we boarded a bus that would take much longer than we had …
READ MORE25 Feb | Hannah Westhoven | No Comments
We signed up for yet another SmartTrips day trip on Friday–this time for a relaxing day in Tuscany. If you didn’t know, Tuscany is a region (similar to a state in America). It includes Florence, Pisa, Siena, and other smaller cities. The regions have provinces (like counties), and in the provinces are cities. We watched “Under the Tuscan Sun” …
READ MORE22 Feb | Athena | No Comments
March is famous for “Madness” of the basketball kind, but now Athena is redefining March by rolling out a month of “Photo Madness”! City against city, country against country, photographer against photographer…in this friendly global rivalry, who will be named “Best in the World” 2016? Follow along with the contest at #AthenaPhotoMadness! Here’s how …
READ MORE22 Feb | Sarah Imbrigiotta | No Comments
This weekend two of my lovely roommates and I went to Budapest, Vienna, and Salzburg. We went with a student travel company, so on Thursday night at 9 pm we loaded up on a double decker bus with 75 other Florence study abroad students! It was supposed to be an 11-12 hour ride to Budapest, …
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