What can I expect from the United States of America?

The American dream!

America has been a common dream for over a century by now; I can personally name relatives from my family’s history that at some point left for the New World, looking for a better life and new opportunities.

Around 4 million Italians emigrated to the United States of America just in the first 20 years of the last century; around 60% of them remained and built there the next generations of Americans[1].

Because, it must be said, Americans are very little autochthonous of the land they live and are indeed a melting pot of cultures and heritages.

A curious being like me couldn’t be more fascinated by that fact!

In truth, the reason I decided to pick USA as my first choice for my High School cultural exchange, had very little to do with anthropological and social curiosity and way more to do with a simple, yet critical, reasoning:

we got to know America and the Americans (at least at that time), mainly from movies and that general, blurry idea connected to the old American Dream that simply wasn’t enough for my teenage self.

I wanted to know more.

I wanted to know how they REALLY were, those idolized and glittered Americans we saw dancing on cafeteria tables singing “We are all in this together!” (it was the years when High School Musical was a thing, don’t judge me).

And that’s exactly what I did.

I took my first flight ever to cross the ocean and continents to ‘meet the Americans’ (plus the long and vexing exchange application process, but that’s a topic for another section 😉 ).

What happened there and what you think you could find there it’s what you’re going to find in these pages.

The humans I met (and the animals and plants and unicorns of course), the lands and towns, skyscrapers and bridges, woods and beaches I explored along my Great American Adventure!

If you’d like to tag along, you know the drill: just follow the rabbit… 🙂

Typical Costs When Travelling

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