Ciao everyone! For the next four months I will be attending the Universita di Stranieri in Italy. This blog is intended to share with my friends and family highlights from bits my time in Italy. I look forward to open air markets, walking, wine, films, weather, history and culture. Some challenges I forsee will be cooking, a language barrier despite my oh so refined Italian instruction at the University of Texas, the chilling mountain air and, not sure what else. All of my classes will be taught in Italian and challenging. I will be living in a student apartment about a ten minute walk from L'Universita. Things I forsee coming in handy: leather gloves, italian/english dictionary, black boots, and my Italian wine bible, certo.