{"id":8,"date":"2008-09-15T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/studying-abroad\/2008\/09\/15\/italians-have-a-slower-paced-lifestyle\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:08:49","slug":"italians-have-a-slower-paced-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2008\/09\/15\/italians-have-a-slower-paced-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Italians Have a Slower-Paced Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nathan Schrader &#8217;10<\/em> &#8211; So needless to say these last two weeks have been an adventure. The excitement of arriving, the homesickness, the amazing breathtaking views of Roman buildings &#8230; it&#8217;s a giant blur. It&#8217;s quite an adjustment from Wabash, which is why I wonder what I&#8217;m doing here at the moment. The 30 minute commute to school, cooking my own meals, dealing with the euro and money, the 3-1 girl to guy ratio, and NO BASEBALL. Or any fields for that matter. I was ecstatic when I found a baseball field the other day about 15 minute ride from the apartment You just don&#8217;t know what you got until it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/make-love.jpg\" \/>Otherwise, seeing Dan Metz and Rob Harvey at Campo di Fiori (the American social scene in Rome) was a blast. David Haggard too. Other fun stuff includes seeing all the monuments, visiting quaint little Todi (a relief from the hustle bustle of Rome), and eating a 12-course meal at a restaurant in the hills.<\/p>\n<p>And two things with Italian culture &#8211; they definitely don&#8217;t work out hard &#8211; it&#8217;s more of a social thing, and the value of family and enjoying the simple things amazes me. There are so many people chilling on the Spanish steps or at St. Peter&#8217;s. It makes me realize Americans could slow it down a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s all I have for now, keep you posted. Pics are of the Wabash guys at Campo di Fiori in Rome and of me and an overlook of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Schrader &#8217;10 &#8211; So needless to say these last two weeks have been an adventure. The excitement of arriving, the homesickness, the amazing breathtaking views of Roman buildings &#8230; it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}