by: Bret Lott
Buongiorno!
This is our eighth year in the villa, a 15th century farmhouse just outside town that looks out on the Umbrian Valley toward Assisi. This year we have fourteen students from five different states and with six different majors, and I send the pictures below to introduce you to them all, and to give you a look at the villa itself. We all arrived safely after almost two days of travel, and within a half hour some of the kids were already in the pool (yes, there’s a pool). Later, just after sunset, they all sang Happy Birthday to Brett, who turned 20, celebrating with a tiramisu cake they’d bought for her at the grocery store down the hill. A good group of kids, we can tell already.
Creative Writing Professor Bret Lott is leading the summer, 2017, study abroad program in Spoleto, Italy.
Brett, Kara and Aimee
The Villa
Chris, Nicholas, Bryan and Alex
Jenna, McKayla and Mary
Liz, Caroline, Mattie and Kaileigh
The Varallos: Gus, Malinda, Ruby and Tony