My eval of the first week

My reflection on the cultural introduction class:

The good:

·        The amount of places we got to visit.

·         I really enjoyed getting to see so much and to experience a lot of different aspects of the Italian culture.

·        I enjoyed our professors.

·        My favorite parts; the vineyard, the Tarot Garden, the quarries, and the day at the beach.

The bad:

·        I didn’t enjoy that Rome was so rushed. I feel that I missed it because I was getting bombarded with so much information that I couldn’t enjoy the experience.

·         The work load was too much for the amount of free time (the lack of free time) that we had to do it. I feel that we either needed more time to at least write our journals daily. It was hard to do that when our days were planned from 8:30a-10:30p especially because we didn’t want to lose sleep over writing. We didn’t want to be exhausted the next day and unable to pay attention and enjoy what happened during the day.

·         I feel we didn’t have time to put thought into our paper because of the journals, the daily activities, moving into our apartments in Florence, and starting out new class.

·         I didn’t like that I signed up for the cultural introduction with no knowledge of it being a class because my grade will probably bring down my GPA

Suggestions:

·        Allot a time during the day, after dinner, to write the journals.

·        Allow a little more time to do the 3000 word paper.

·        Spend more time in Rome.

·        Tell the schools to let it be known that the cultural introduction is a class that you get a credit for.

All in all it was an amazing experience despite the issues I had. I had fun and I enjoyed getting to go places I’ve never been to.