Watched myself growing as an Italian Speaker Past Review

Now that I am home, the program abroad has impacted my life greatly. I have changed what I have wanted to do with my life. I want to become completely fluent in Italian. This program made me want to take a test for the translator's certificate for Italian, English, and Japanese. This program has made me appreciate who I am and where I come from. I am proud to be a Japanese American and I am proud to have learned Italian. I have gained a lot more confidence after coming home from the program. I feel now that the possibilities are endless and that I have the capability to do what I want. I began learning Spanish when I was in the fourth grade and took Spanish until junior year of high school when I realized as I sat in my Spanish class of my senior year that I could barely speak any Spanish. I thought that I could never be able to speak another language. When I went to Italy for the first time in middle school with my Church Choir, I knew I was going to go back as I made a wish while I tossed a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome. I realized how the Italian language was important to my singing career and that I had a passion for it. When I began going to college, I knew that I wanted to study abroad in Italy. I studied for two years during college before I left for Italy to prepare myself. There was a gut feeling that I had to go regardless of how afraid i was. I thought that the only way that I could become even merely fluent in Italian was to go to Italy- and that has changed everything.