Ally Chester - Rome, Italy

 Each year as part of the five-week Rome Summer Study Program, education majors who have completed their junior year, are given the opportunity to take a three-credit Educational Internship at the Marymount International School in Rome, Italy. In addition, they take a three-credit course at the American University of Rome. Ally Chester, a double major in elementary and special education, reflects on her internship at Marymount and her time in Rome.

“I taught children at the Marymount International Elementary School from all over the world; bilingual and trilingual children, who at the age of 10 have seen more of the world than most people would in a lifetime. The weekends were all different, I traveled to Florence, Venice, Capri, Sorrento, and Positano and I had an amazing time no matter what I did or what I saw. This experience opened my eyes to so much of the world. I realized that there is so much in this world that I have never seen or experienced…and I want to. If you have the opportunity to study abroad, then it would be foolish not to take advantage of it.”