Like a growing number of St. John’s students, Alexander
Johnson ’15TCB enrolled in Discover
Italy: Rome Semester this past spring for one reason — to
spend the term learning Italian language and culture at the
University’s residential campus in the
Eternal City.
Johnson knew the semester would include the first side trip to
Istanbul,
the largest city in Turkey. But he was not terribly excited by the
thought of visiting the metropolis. “I really wanted to study in
Rome,” he said. “Turkey just wasn’t a place I’d ever thought about
visiting.”
The six-day trip changed his mind. “Istanbul is magnificent,”
said Johnson, a business management major from Milwaukee, WI. “The
sights and sounds were breathtaking — the bazaar, the mosques — but
it’s totally modern. I’d like to go again.”
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