Friday May 13th: This was our second day of official classes in the Palace. We started out the day by walking around the towns with Cinzia and being informed about how to use public transportation in Italy, it was very interesting to hear about because the only ways to really get around is to either: walk everywhere, use the train, or the cotral bus system. After we walked around learning where the train and the bus stations are we had our first visit to look i...

Thursday May 12th: Today was our very first field trip; we went and visited the area of the Castelli Romani. On our first field trip we traveled to CastelGandolfo (which is the popes summer house), we went to Frescati, Genzano, and we finally went to Nemi and ate a wonderful lunch that was prepared for us by a guy who thinks that he is Elvis, he had the complete look from the hair to the side burns and the giant glasses. It was amazing food, since we didn't rea...

Wednesday May 11th: Well was our first real day in Italy and it was really action packed, we walked around everywhere. To start off the morning, we had our orientations to everything with the auburn professor that is staying with us for the entire summer. We then got the chance to meet the rest of the Chigi Palace staff. Then after that Cinzia our Italy tour guide took us to the TIM phone store so we were able to get our Italian phones, sim cards, and minutes f...

Tuesday May 10th: After a really long 9 ½ hour flight we finally arrive in Italy and so far the trip has gone so smooth, getting off the plane and stepping down into Italy seemed almost unreal like I was going to wake up any moment from the dream. After navigating through the airport with a few lost turns we finally made it to the baggage claim, after walking around for a while not knowing exactly which baggage claim our luggage would be coming to I finally sa...

Monday May 9th: we finally begin our journey to the trip that is going to change our lives forever... I still can't believe that I'm going to be living and studying for school in Italy for 3 months. I'm so excited that I have been given this amazing opportunity. I can't wait to see what this new trip has in store for me and my future with fashion