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Sleep score was super high this weekend

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Out & About

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Charades, yellow shirt, a roommate, and Chris Paul highlights…Charleston 2026

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Home.

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Not too shabby🙃

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Mykonos & Malta 🩵

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Moroccan & Rollin’

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I’ll be back!

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Day & Night

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Traveling to a new country isn’t just a change of scenery — it’s a collision with an entirely different way of living. Different rhythms, different rules and different expectations for how you move through the world and treat the people around you.

That kind of immersion is a privilege, but it can also be intimidating. The truth is, cultural adjustment takes time.

When I left to study abroad in Rome, I expected culture shock. I thought my biggest challenge would be the language. What I didn’t anticipate was everything around the language: the unspoken etiquette, the respectful forms of address, the social cues and the norms that are second nature to Italians but completely unfamiliar to Americans.

📝Madeline Darby
📸Madeline Darby

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💌 to Switzerland

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