I am extremely excited to spend this upcoming summer with Abbey Road Programs in Florence! I will be attending the Florence program, which I chose because of its rich history in artwork and architecture. I knew that there was no better place to explore my artistic capabilities than the city where inspiring artists like Michelangelo and ...
I am beyond excited to embark on such an incredible adventure as well as to gain an insight to the beautiful Italian language! I cannot wait to meet new people and forge bonds I am sure will last a lifetime. After we have all experienced a once in a lifetime opportunity together, we will remember it for the rest of our lives! Something else I ...
My name is Anthony, and I will be going on Abbey Road Program's Florence-Rome trip this summer. I am very excited to have this great opportunity to study abroad in Italy! I am three quarters Italian and very proud to say so. I enjoy all sorts of Italian traditions but especially cooking, which will be one of the courses I will study. I ...
Hello! My name is Brittany, and I am sixteen-years-old. I live in New York, and I am going to Florence and Rome with Abbey Road Programs this summer! I think excited is an understatement for how I feel about my trip... One thing that I am most excited for is to experience the culture of Florence by visiting tourist spots, enjoying the food, ...
It has been a long time coming, but it seems my trip to Florence, Italy is just beyond the horizon... My name is Ethan, I am sixteen-years-old, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to study abroad this summer on Abbey Road's Florence-Rome program. In December when I was thinking about my plans for the upcoming summer, the very concept of ...
This was your second summer with Abbey Road, what drew you to Abbey Road the first time and what made you decide to go again? I started Abbey Road the summer after I stopped going to summer camp and I was looking for something to do that would be both productive and fun. My mom found it online and she sent me the link and I thought it looked ...
What I discovered was that learning to be independent wasn’t as hard as I had thought, at least, with all of the helpful program staff it wasn’t. It felt like learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time- you teeter off on your own, but there are always arms there to catch you if you fall. The Abbey Road staff gave us just enough ...
Yet, I believe that 15 years could go by before I return to Florence and I would still be able to expertly navigate my way around the city. Of course, there were the early moments of the trip when my fellow Abbey Road travelers and I felt like we were in a foreign maze, thinking to ourselves that we would never be able to navigate through the ...
For my minor class, Photography, my teacher was Pamela whom everyone liked to call Pam. Pam was funny, caring, and very helpful in teaching us all the mechanisms of our cameras. It was very interesting to learn what kind of features our cameras had, and how they could enhance any pictures we would take. I also found her to be very ...
Abbey Road was the best program because I loved the idea of having one stationary home. My friends and I became such locals, that every day after Italian we went to the same tiny shop in Il Mercato Central and got our mozzarella, Pomodoro and pesto Panini. On our last day of Italian, we went to our Panini lady and she knew exactly what we ...