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I knew coming in that France was hardly a country that agrees with Georgetown on the idea of Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam; that is to say, it is an overwhelmingly secular country, so much so that since the passage of the 1905 secularism law, this laïcité…

Now that I have been living in Florence for three full weeks, I wanted to reflect on the cultural differences that I have noticed so far. I left for Georgetown’s Villa le Balze from New York on August 31. Coming to Florence, I knew very little…

It is hard to have a personality when learning another language.