what to expect and a bit about my reservations
I d like to say that I'm nervous about going to Italy or that i find the experience super exciting, which don't get me wrong i am excited, but I find myself approaching this summer with a Luke warm indifference, it feels like just something else i have to check off in order to get my degree. Its an odd thing to be so "eh" about Italy, one of the most (im)famous countries in the world with a history that began around the dawn of the iron age. It might be a byproduct of my Hyper Americanist attitude or maybe I'm just not as susceptible to the culture of Italy as others, unlikely I have to admit as it is. But i think it really has it roots in the highly pervasive online culture in two key ways. Firstly, the ease of access that everyone with an internet connection and a Nokia has to all the available information and knowledge that humanity has ever possessed, has taken away the mystique that foreign lands used to possess in the minds of Americans. I no long...