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Well, this is it! My year abroad is finally over, and I’ve made it. As I write this, I’m sat in Bologna airport drinking a cappuccio, soaking in the last few drops of Italian smells, sounds and sights before I return back to rainy dull England. What I really mean by this is that I gave myself 3 hours to get to the airport when I know for a FACT it takes 2 hours maximum, and I have nothing else to do so I thought I’d whip out my laptop. I wish it was more romantic, but even after 9 months in some of the most relaxed countries in the world, I’ve still not lost some of my British quirks. Unsurprisingly. If there’s anyone out there who has managed to read about every single one of our adventures, failures and triumphs, thank you! Blogging through this year has been helpful for so many reasons: it’s given me a creative outlet when I was bored/unmotivated, it’s been a reason to go on trips, experience new cities, take photos, live in the moment and document those moments. To think t...

(None of the photos included in this post are my own) As I mentioned in my blog about joining clubs on your year abroad, whilst studying in Forli I decided to join the group SsenzaLimiti. SsenzaLimiti are a theatre group in the University of Bologna who hold many different foreign language theatre groups for language learners or natives to get together and create a performance. The actual performances themselves are a 4 day extravaganza of 3 different shows every evening where each different group shows the play that they’ve been working on, most of which have Italian subtitles. I first heard about the group in the welcome meeting during my second week in Forli. As soon as Cristiano – one of the leaders of the group – gave the presentation, it sparked an interest for me. I’d been really missing playing with the various groups in the musicians society in Swansea and this would be the perfect opportunity to get me back on the stage. I emailed the leader of the L2 Italiano g...

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take." — Lewis Carroll My year abroad is slowly coming to a close, I have around a month left here in Germany but my last two weeks are busy with exams so I imagine time will fly then. I must admit that I'm getting ready for home now, as much as this year has been a brilliant experience, I'm so ready for a proper routine again. I've been extremely lucky with my timetable whilst here in Germersheim, I don't have any lessons on Mondays or Fridays so this has given me plenty of time to explore. During my second weekend into the term, I visited Strasbourg with one of my course mates. We were desperate to do a tour of European Parliament but this got cancelled do to Giles Jaunes protests. Despite this, it was a great weekend and my first time in France Not long after this, I met up with Sarah in Zurich. It was brilliant but unbelievably cold! It was great to be able to just café h...