After living out of my suitcase for over a week, I (along
with everyone else in the program) was BEYOND excited to finally move into our
apartment! The program told us to go into our apartment with relatively low
expectations: sharing rooms, no wifi, small/antique furniture, etc. But in our
case, they couldn’t have been more wrong about! My 9 roommates and I got
incredibly lucky! We live in a 5 bedroom flat right past the Ponte Vecchio. We
are situated along a busy street and intersection, directly above a fresh
market. I’m sharing a room with an amazing girl named Heidi and from our
bedroom window we can see the eventful street, as well as the Arno River. The
apartment comes equipped with 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room with a TV,
and a storage room. I can’t believe how lucky we all got. The apartment came
fully furnished and has mostly white décor with pops of pastel colors. Not to
mention, my roommates are incredible! We all get along amazingly and I can’t
wait to get close with all 9 of them. We are about a 6-minute walk to school
(if we take our time), which has made getting up and out the door a lot easier!
The apartments of other students in our program are spread out all throughout
Florence, so it has been fun to visit them and see different perspectives of
the city. I think I’m finally starting to get my bearings around here, so
hopefully I will be getting lost much less often!
Our first Italian exam was on Thursday so we didn’t get much
time to unpack everything before we needed to study… but after living here for
a few days I honestly can’t imagine anything/anywhere more perfect!
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