A year later....

A little more than a year ago I left for Italy. I can't exactly say I was super excited for the experience...to be honest I just wanted to go somewhere else. And well I took a few semesters of Italian and I am an art history major so Italy just seemed like it would be the best fit. The whole week before I left though, I was stressed, I was nervous, my stomach was making all sorts of twists and turns, I, Sara Gorrell could not eat...I mean that's how nervous I was, I think about food 24/7, so the fact that I couldn't eat, is well a big deal. But that first week quickly turned into a month, and before long things were getting easie I truly began to love Italy for what Italy is. It's not just Michelanglo and Leonardo but it's about eating outside with your friends, going to apertivo, buying your food from the market, learning all the bad words, and trying to make sense of everything going on around you...trying to figure out how you fit in this world and understanding there is there is the huge world and what you know, is only a small percentage of a percentage.

And now I'm back in San Francisco, a worldly city in it's own and trying to figure out again how I fit in, a sort of cultural shock in my own country. But now I know, it is a big world out there and there are so many things left for me to learn and it is good to know that wherever I go I am home.