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Since getting back from my year studying abroad last year I have been spending all of my free time this year in between classes and studying, planning my next trip or eventual move. I am an architecture major and I have a huge interest in classical architecture so I decided when choosing a foreign country to study in that I would go to either Italy or Germany. After about six months of trying to decided I ended up eventually choosing Italy. The entire year there was just amazing. The schooling was very interesting and the people even more so. I loved going to all of the sites. I had never been outside fo the country so it was also a big culture shock at first to simply be away from most things that I have grown comfortable with in my life. Learning Italian was not too hard for me and I have retained a good deal of it so far but I don’t use it very much which I will have to change if I want to keep that skill. We got to tour the whole country over the course of the year. When we would have breaks from school we got the option of staying or going out to explore the country. I always chose the latter. On my first break I went and rented a week at a villa in Tuscany in the north. I went around a tried as many of the different wine varieties as I could and took as many walks around the huge orchards as I could. That was some of the most amazing countryside I have ever seen. Another one of the breaks I rented another villa in Sicily. This was a little different. My time was a bit less fun but I spent most of it at the beach or walking by the big lemon groves. Now that I am back I have take these two little juts out in to the unknown of Italy and tried to make myself comfortable with the idea of living in these places. I have been researching Sicily apartments and Tuscany apartments. tuscany villas and Sicily villas for several weeks now and I actually have found some that I would considering living in if I could find a job in the area right after college.