An American student who studied in Florence has sparked a debate after sharing in an essay that she “grew to despise” the Italian city during her time abroad.
On 9 March, Insider published a personal essay written by New York University student Stacia Datskovska about her fall semester abroad in Florence, Italy. In the article, the journalism and international relations student explained how her study abroad experience was much different than how she’d imagined – full of “summer flings with people who called me ‘bella’” and “gelato that dripped down my fingers in the heat”.
