To start off the month of April, I had just returned from my week-long Easter break trip to Switzerland, Germany, and The Netherlands. The first weekend I traveled and stayed the night in Bologna, where the next morning I went to Maranello and Modena to visit the Ferrari and Lamborghini museums respectively. This was very exciting to me as I love anything automotive related, especially Italian supercars! I continued the automotive trend the next weekend by traveling to Monza, a suburb of Milan, to attend the Blancpain GT Series race. This race is a traveling international “endurance race” where high-end automotive manufacturer’s such as Audi, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, and many others compete in a three-hour long circuit race. The GT race was accompanied by smaller class one-hour races prior to the main event. I regularly attend various automotive races in the Southern part of the United States, so attending this race was one the highlights of my experience abroad. The last weekend in April, I traveled to Cinque Terre national park where I saw some of the most beautiful landscape in the entire world in the cities of Corgnilia, Manarola, Riomaggiore, Vernazza, and Liguria. In addition to the amazing cliffs and cities along the Mediterranean Sea, I also ate some of the best seafood I have ever had. From here, I traveled North-East to Venice where I spent the rest of the weekend. Here, I continued to eat local seafood (my second favorite thing, after automotive). I also visited local palaces and museums to learn about the history and the forming of Venice. Among the best part of getting to experience this myself, is that I have made new friends from different countries all over the world and I have been able to experience this with them.
Even though this past month may be hard to top, I am excited to see what the month of May has to hold for me! I have planned to visit the following places:
- Barcelona (last international travel)
- Pisa
- Rome
- Naples
- Pompeii
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Mechanical Engineering major Kody Piccirilli is spending the spring 2018 semester in Italy with our U of A Exchange Program at Politecnico di Torino with the help of our Office of Study Abroad Scholarship.
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Mechanical Engineering major Kody Piccirilli is spending the spring 2018 semester in Italy with our U of A Exchange Program at Politecnico di Torino with the help of our Office of Study Abroad Scholarship.
Don't miss your opportunity to study or intern abroad! Start your search at http://studyabroad.uark.edu/search/
