{"id":1051,"date":"2012-07-21T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:08:38","slug":"italy-hs-bittersweet-mainly-bitter-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/italy-hs-bittersweet-mainly-bitter-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy HS &#8211; Bittersweet, Mainly Bitter, Ending by Lisa Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1053\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01204-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>Spending our morning the park in Rome was one beautiful but sad thing. This was where I took the time and reflected on my experience in Rome. I had the chance to just sit and enjoy the fact that I was in Rome with my best friend, Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Spending the remainder of the evening in Frascati was one of the most hilarious and memorable evenings in Italy. I got to bond with the two most incredible girls with our inside jokes, got to have the most fabulous meal at a restaurant overlooking all of Rome, spending my last euros on clothes from Italy, and just enjoying the last hours I had in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/553322_252252958219838_1639983079_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1052\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/553322_252252958219838_1639983079_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>The flight back to the Atlanta airport was so bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p>I had just gotten used to my surroundings in Rome, the customs and the people of Rome, I didn&#8217;t want to leave. But I also missed the crisp air conditioner, my own bed, and my family. I am glad to say that I visited Rome before I was 18. I am glad that I have these memories to cherish for the rest of my life. I am glad that I was fortunate enough to take this trip and learn different histories of Rome and study at the University for the classes I took over seas, in the United States. One day, I know it, I will be back in Rome, looking back at these memories I made so many years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending our morning the park in Rome was one beautiful but sad thing. This was where I took the time and reflected on my experience in Rome. I had the chance to just sit and enjoy the fact that I was in Rome with my best friend, Austin. Spending the remainder of the evening in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/italy-hs-bittersweet-mainly-bitter-ending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italy HS &#8211; Bittersweet, Mainly Bitter, Ending by Lisa Nguyen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9639,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}