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On the way to Italy for the first time.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Looking back I’m sure I’m not the only who can say that this trip has changed me in one way or another. Through this trip, I discovered that when you go out of the country for the first time and get to experience a new culture in person… it has a way of changing your views of the world.<\/p>\n

Before we left, several people had tried to warn me, or give me a heads up about what traveling abroad is like, but you really can’t understand it fully unless you’ve experienced it for yourself.<\/p>\n

Italy sparked several profound changes in me, the most moving of which happened on the plane ride over, and would go on to be reiterated almost everyday. When caught in a routine, going to the same places and doing the same things everyday, it’s easy to lose\u00a0 sight of what an amazing world we live in. The first time I looked out of the plane window as we were taking off, I found myself speechless; I couldn’t stop gaping out at the beautiful world below (even if we were just leaving Atlanta).<\/p>\n

Seeing the world from above can have a rather life-changing effect simply because you see everything for what it is: small. Everything is so small and yet all of it is important, no matter how small it may be, or it may seem. But despite it all, even the small things have a way of taking your breath away.<\/p>\n

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\"Micaelangelo's<\/a>Throughout the entire trip we got to see and experience things that most of us will probably only see this one time in our lives, which is still amazing since most people will never be able to experience it for themselves. With this in mind, it was easy to get a little overwhelmed with all of the wonders that we were able to experience in one day. We’d rush throughout the Vatican Museum just to spend twenty minutes in the Sistine Chapel. Yet, even though it was overwhelming, and it was rushed, it was still an incredible experience. And in those few moments that we were allowed to rest, and let it all sink in, all you could really think is, “Wow… I was just in the Coliseum.”<\/p>\n

Sometimes it wasn’t the grandeur of the building, or how old the item in question really was, it was the fact that you were in Rome with a group of some of the most amazing people you’ve ever known, and it was enough to take your breath away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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