JULIA E' ARRIVATA a Conegliano!

I am so happy for Julia! 

After many months of preparation, lots of paperwork and many visits to the Italian Consulate in New York for her visa, she finally arrived in Italy (E' ARRIVATA).

She boarded the plane, crossed the ocean, arrived at the Venice airport.... and now she is ready to immerse herself in the "real" Italian culture and experience the warmth and flavors of Italy! Attention people of Conegliano!!

Julia at JFK airport in NY

Julia at Marco Polo airport in Venezia (Italia!) She is welcomed by her new family!

Julia will have an unforgettable experience - it's not going to be all nice and easy but she has accepted the challenge. 
Charles Darwin said: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change". 
By living in a different culture and speaking a different language she will need to adapt to different realities and step out of her comfort zone but this will allow her to expand her experience tremendously (she will tell us all about this in her next posts!) and to bring home the best of what she has learned.

What I wish for her is that her life will be transformed in a positive way through this experience. Personally I can say that studying and living abroad has taught me an unimaginable amount of things that have served me more in life than what I learned in school.