On Italy: A Foreword

On Italy: A Foreword

Thousands of years of civilization, countless wars, the Renaissance, Popes, emperors, poets and generals… Italy is one place you may spend years writing about, but always feel what you have written is insignificant, useless and basically nothing compared to the ink spent on Italy, and it’s beautiful cities…

But even though fate has proven to me numerous times that I am totally useless in writing, I will try to take a shot here in Rome, where I will be living for six months studying as part of an exchange program.

Who am I? I am an engineering student from Istanbul who is basically insignificant a person as defined above. I have no special talents, no special looks, no special genious I may boast... I am just the next person, the person you might see on the street and feel absolutely nothing has changed in your life. I do have hobbies, phobias, a career plan that will probably never work out… But right now, I’m here, and you are there reading…

Well, the blog will be about Italy, mainly Rome, life in Rome and life in general, Italians, bits and pieces of what I’ve caught reading, interesting facts&figures, instances of my feelings and experiences in Rome… But probably my greatest contribution will be the viewpoint from which I will look at Rome: as I said I am from Istanbul, a city I value to be Rome’s counterpart and big brother in the East.

I’d like the reader to keep in mind that English is my second language, and I will sometimes be making humongous mistakes. I take the credit for all mistakes I will be making.