Monthly Archives: August 2010

Walking With a Purpose

By Monica | Published: August 25, 2010

After a topsy-turvy month of August, I am beginning to settle down to a way of life that I am pleased with and that I need desperately. It has not been fun and August has just thrown obstacles and decisions and even opportunities at me, but overall it has stressed me out! I came back [...]

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Let’s Get Saucey!

By Monica | Published: August 13, 2010

Every year my family and I go to a farm in Jersey to pick tomatoes for our annual sauce making event. Well, because the rules have changed since I was little, we are now forced to go to the farms and just buy crates of tomatoes that have already been picked. It is a bit [...]

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Post-Dream World

By Monica | Published: August 4, 2010

This has been interesting to say the least. After spending time in Rome and then spending a week in Longano there was no way I could imagine going back to Philadelphia. How would I manage with the different weather, the different people, the different living situation and the different lifestyle overall?! Was I crazy for [...]

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Pompei in a Day

By Monica | Published: August 1, 2010

I did take a two-day excursion back to Rome and then to Pompeii with Peter and Anneke from the program just to break up the time in the mountains. We spent two nights in a camping villa outside of the center of Rome. This place was fantastic! It was like a whole other world and [...]

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Il Fine :(

By Monica | Published: August 1, 2010

Need sleep. Five days of four hours of sleep or less. Need sleep. The final week of the program was surely not spent getting much needed rest and relaxation. Heck no. The days were filled with final class trips and final meetings with professors and writing sessions in the computer lab. The nights were filled [...]

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