Hello Every­one–

In case you haven’t heard, but I will be leav­ing at 6:00am on Tues­day the 25^th of August to spend a month in Rome. Dur­ing this time, I will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the LSJ Rome pro­gram, which is a 24 stu­dent (12 under­grad­u­ate and 12 law stu­dents) pro­gram jointly taught and led by the LSJ under­grad­u­ate major pro­gram and the UW School of Law.

We will be con­duct­ing classes based on European/United States com­par­a­tive law, EU civil lib­erty pro­tec­tions, and for me, second-year Ital­ian. Classes will be oper­at­ing from the UW Rome Cen­ter located off of Palazzo Pio, which is right next to Campo dei Fiori. I will be stay­ing in an apart­ment a short walk away from Campo dei Fiori with some other stu­dents in the program.

Until I return on Sep­tem­ber 25^th, I will be under­stand­ably more dif­fi­cult to con­tact. While I still will have e-mail and inter­net access due to me bring­ing along my net­book, phone con­tact will not be feasable. I will have an emer­gency phone for use in Europe, but only the UW Rome cen­ter will have my num­ber, so you will have to call through them. The time dif­fer­ence is also nine hours, so keep this in mind when con­tact­ing me.

I will not be bring­ing my DSLR due to size and bulk con­cerns, and will instead take my smaller Canon SX 110, which was specif­i­cally pur­chased for this trip and other trav­els. Pic­tures from the trip will be posted to my flickr when­ever pos­si­ble. Addi­tion­ally, I will blog about the trip when­ever pos­si­ble at this site.

This is why I actu­ally cared more about Ital­ian than just pass­ing the class. :)

Best,

Nikky