Intervista con Simone

For my interview, I spoke with Simone, the owner of Food Sicily in Cefalu’. He is a very busy man, but he was able to take a few minutes out of his day to talk about business, food, and life in general. It was interesting to see how his mind works as a business owner…

Posted by socrates on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Surviving Mount Etna

I love hiking, but I’ve never experienced super challenging terrain until the day we hiked Mount Etna. It was an early morning for us, and the long, messy lines at the crowded rest stop that we stopped combined with a lack of sleep didn’t make me excited for the day. However, when we reached Mount…

Posted by fum on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Roman Holiday

For our free weekend, Michelle and I decided to travel to Rome. Michelle had visited once with her family, but I had never been so I was excited to see all the touristy Rome monuments. We took the train from the airport to Termini Station, then walked to our hostel from there. Neither of us…

Posted by Caroline Powers on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Lost in Rome: Hungry and Afraid

For the free weekend I traveled to Rome with my villa-mates Cynthia, Izzy, and Rita. We arrived late Thursday evening with plans to wake up early the next morning to make it to the Vatican in time for our ticket reservation. Easily enough, there was a bus stop directly across the street from our AirBnB….

Posted by katiep on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Interview with Daniella – Education

For my interview, I spoke with Daniella, who works at Scooter-for-Rent and has rented scooters to several of us over the past few weeks. Daniella was born and raised in Cefalu, so we spoke about his education and the schooling system he went through as a child. His early years of education sounded very similar…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Cefalu Walking Tour

Check out our walking tour of Cefalu! xoxo, Annam and Seryna    

Posted by seryna on May 29, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Mt. Etna Vlog

https://vanderbilt.box.com/s/dohq2zar09011ii6cdyu8cmleevhe0cs   By: Meghan Miller and Emily Sanford

Posted by meghan on May 29, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Flight of a Lifetime

I have been on many plane flights in my life, but the plane flight a few of us took for our free weekend from Palermo to Pisa was something I have never experienced before. It all started with the boarding process. There were only two boarding groups: priority and regular. Usually the planes I have…

Posted by emily on May 29, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Interview Blog: A Comparison of Universities in Sicily and America

Today I spoke to a Native of Cefalu about his experience at a private university in Palermo, a nearby city. His name is Vincenzo Di Franco and he is currently finishing his last semester of college, majoring as a translator and planning on pursuing it as a job. I asked him many questions that drew…

Posted by alexb on May 29, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Interview with Vittoria Cirello on the Role of Women in Sicily

At around 11:15 am on May 22 I interviewed Vittoria Cirello, our tour guide for many of our excursions around Sicily and the director of the language school Culturforum. I asked her several questions about her day-to-day life here in Sicily and the role of women in Sicilian culture. Vittoria lives in a small village…

Posted by carolineh on May 29, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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