Italian Coffee: Second Chance and Healing

 Before I went here in Italy, I thought that I can't enjoy the simple things to enjoy here like drinking coffee and wines because of my hyper acidity in my stomach that sometimes would lead me to experience excruciating heartburn.

Coffee time at La Menagere, Florence, Italy

Which I got when I exactly turned 23 years old, after having a drinking party out with my college friends. Since then I swore off drinking coffee, alcohol and even softdrink at the same time.

But it all changed when I tried the coffee (caffe latte- a more safer choice because it is more milk content) here in Italy, at first I experience mild LBM but the good thing is that my stomach doesn't react to it anymore. They say like an allergic reaction, you can train your body to slowly get used to the things that your body is rejecting. So that is what I did and it worked!!

My 100th day in Italy and Start of Summer Break

Time flies so fast, I'm already here for more than 3 months. It seems like just yesterday that I arrived here in Florence and even now our summer break had just started.

@ Piazzale Michaelangelo; Neha, Nhi and Me (L-R)

I'm still dumbfounded with how long our summer break would be, it would be more or less 3 to near 4 months long 😅 I didn't even prepare or listed down anything to do for my summer break as to I was expecting it to be just 2 months long. But thanks to my summer companion- Neha, we will be doing various educational activities and visiting many places. We will hopefully be able to spend our summer well :)

Here are some pictures of our earlier week summer day out:

1. Urban Sketching at the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

 

 

New Life Chapter

Hi! I know it's been a while since my last update in this blog, I've previously been busy in working on and pushing my papers. For me to be able to pursue my further studies, like in what I have shared in my last post.

Good news is that I'm here now in Italy, pursuing my further studies after long and tiring months (3-4 months) of going back and forth the Italian Embassy. It has not been an easy road for me to be able to go here and I even got depressed at some point, because I got rejected in my 1st application, few days before Christmas of 2016. During that time, I even thought of giving up my plan and dream of studying abroad. But I'm thankful for my family and friends that pushed me to think positively about it (after I submitted my 2nd application, because I was given a chance to be able to submit again) and supported me along the way.