soloioIn May 2006, I did a 3-week study abroad in Florence, Italy as an elective for my Masters. It was a course in art librarianship, and about a dozen of us from universities all over the US ran around Tuscany for a few weeks getting backstage tours of all the museums and libraries, eating like crazy, and collecting stories about the insane little force of nature who was our Florentine professor (let’s just say she liked wine more than most Italians). It was my second trip to Italy and the kind of experience that made me want to just stay there forever.

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