Bowdy’s study abroad trip

Thursday was our travel day to Urbino. Our meeting spot was back at the airport so we could meet our other classmates and all of the UTSA students. There are about 100 of them here with us and they are all architecture students. From the airport we loaded up on buses and traveled to Urbino, it was about a 4 hour drive.

These were our first views of Urbino upon arrival. It was very surreal once we finally got here, knowing that I will be living here for 3 months. For the rest of the day we got checked into our dorms and ate dinner. I got the ravioli and it was absolutely amazing.

Friday morning we had orientation. They went over all the basics with us of what’s required while we are here. It took a couple of hours. They then showed us the Mensa (dining hall) where we will eat most of our meals. Overall it was decent, but basically just normal dining hall food. Friday night we went to dinner at our favorite restaurant so far called Sazio. We met a waiter there that speaks english and have already developed a friendship with him.

After dinner, we hung out for a while and then walked to campus (20 min walk up hill) to watch Auburn play our first game at 1am. We stayed up the entire night and didn’t get back to our dorms until about 6 am. Watching the sunrise on our walk back to the dorm was awesome, but I couldn’t take a picture because my phone was dead. Blake, Jack and I bought hats and wore them the whole night. We got tons of crazy stares.

As you can imagine, we slept in to about 2 in the afternoon on Saturday afternoon. We hung out in our kitchen pretty much the whole day and watched college game day and played cards. We got pizza and brought it back to the dorms to watch the Alabama football game.

Today we have been working on thesis preparing for our first day of class tomorrow. I am adding some final touch-ups to my 3D model of my building. After today I will be completely done with the model and ready to move on to my project plan. We plan on getting dinner somewhere later and then getting some rest for tomorrow.

That’s it for today. Will update in a couple days! Below are pictures of the views from campus.