1. Wine- I love wine, and being able to stay on a vineyard for an entire week and try all sorts of different wine, I couldn’t be more excited!

2. Food- YUMM. I am seriously planning on gaining at least twenty pounds while we are there! I love food, my cousin is a famous chef and I am so very excited to eat some of the best in the entire world, not to mention that Italian food is some of my favorite food to begin with

3. Learning about a new culture – I am so excited to be immersed in a new place, new language, and new learning opportunity

4. Opera- I love going to Operas and Symphonies, and I can’t believe I have the opportunity to go to such prestigious operas while I’m in Italy!

5. Cheese- even though I already said food, cheese needed its own place, I absolutely love cheese, I am going to be eating so much cheese every opportunity I have 

6. Art- being an art major, I am so excited to get to see first hand some of the most influential places in art history in the world. 

7. Museums- I love to learn and could spend days in any museum

8. Going on a boat tour in Venice and getting serenaded (ha ha)

9. Shopping!! I can’t wait to go to Milan. Shoes, leather, fashion galore. 

10. Being amongst my peers in an entirely new environment and making everlasting memories with new friends – I love to take lots of photos and videos, I can’t wait to take a ton of pictures with people whose company I very much enjoy, I am going to bring my film camera and a digital camera just so I can document this trip as well as possibly, I am so excited!!