NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013
ISSUE 2 - YEAR 10 | FUA/PALAZZI | APR 2020
BREAKING NEWS
LEARNING IN (AND FROM) CHALLENGING TIMES BY MELISSA ROSSI, FUA-AUF FACULTY MEMBER AND COUNSELOR | PHOTOS BY CAYLYN DOWNEY AND BRONWYN MORGAN Spring semester started off in a fairly standard
future sessions and new courses. On the other side of
way. My psych classes were brimming with curious
the globe, a flu-like virus was an important topic of
students ready to learn, full of excitement along with
conversation that rapidly became a point of interest
confusion about being in a new culture. Many students
in Italy, around the same time it received a new name:
were reaching out to me for counseling for help with
COVID-19. As the number of participants in my classes
adjustment to their new life in Florence, while others
abruptly diminished and students left Florence, many in
were taking in stride classes and travels in Europe. In
tears, the reality of the situation began to sink in, along
the Academic Affairs office, we were busy with planning
with a sense of doom that my own world was about