During my first weeks there, I lost weight because I simply couldn't find a place to eat. The problem is that there exists a common schedule for having a meal everyone should stick to. Classic Italian breakfast is expresso and croissant – not that nutritious. Dinner is from 12 to 2 p.m., so if you have classes, university’s cafeteria will not wait for you and just close after 2 o’clock. The same worked for other restaurants with traditional cuisine (tourist areas in the city center are not taken into account). Thus, I didn’t eat until 7 p.m. when I was on my way home. Only later I found some places near the Uni and started to eat properly again. Second huge and annoying problem was public transport. As Italians don’t like to work much, there are no timetables and 40-50 minutes of waiting for a tram or a bus was an everyday norm, leading to constantly being late for classes. In the evening that time could even exceed one hour! Renting a bicycle for 2 euros allowed us to get out of the situation with public transport. Third obstacle appeared to be communication with native citizens. Italians don’t speak English well and, for instance, on the street, some state organizations or at post office you have to speak Italian. I guess, after I’ve completed the course in the Italian language in the university, my approximate level after this semester is A2, which, basically, helped me to survive. Fourth problem we’ve encountered was that since Italia is a warm country, central heating does not work there. However, when it got really cold, around +3°C, we used the air conditioner as a heater, setting the highest possible temperature. Finally, there was too poor Wi-Fi connection in many buildings, and I had to do all my studies somewhere in co-working areas that was of much inconvenience. In Saint Petersburg there is not such a problem.