Jake Hilley, a junior at Ponte Vedra High School, has gotten to see what two different lifestyles are like. Jake lived in Italy for three years and moved back to the U.S. right before his freshman year of high school. Jake lived on an American naval base in Naples, Italy and went to an American school there as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The COVID-19 situation was a lot different there than in Florida. Jake said, \u201cit was very isolating in Italy given he lived on a base, and it was such an elderly population, not very much going out and about.\u201d Jake also said, \u201ceveryone wanted to move to Florida, it was like heaven.\u201d The school life compared to Florida was similar as Jake went to an American school, so all the type of classes and schedule was about the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going out in Italy compared to Florida is very different. Jake said, \u201cwhen you would go out, your parents had to go with you every time because you have to be 18 to drive, so going out would be with your parents.\u201d Jake also said, \u201cwhen you parked your car you would have to pay someone to watch because if not it was most likely getting broken in to.\u201d Jake mentioned \u201cthe outsides of restaurants and different places would look very run down and beat up, but the inside was much nicer and didn\u2019t look like a shack on the inside.\u201d The food was always on point Jake mentioned. He said, \u201cthey always took extra time and effort to make sure the food was at its perfection, and it never let down.\u201d Jake added by saying, \u201cmost of the food I had in Italy was the same as here in the states, but, it was so much more better tasting and richer in Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you parked your car you would have to pay someone to watch because if not it was most likely getting broken in to.\u201d<\/p>Jake hilley (11)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n One of the major differences between Italy to America is the sports. Jake said, \u201cthere were no club sports or club teams, only recreational sports.\u201d Jake also said, \u201cyou could not play contact sports until you were in high school. So as a football player when I was in Italy, I could only play flag or touch football.\u201d Jake also said, \u201cI didn\u2019t travel very much, if I did it would be on a school field trip.\u201d This was Jake\u2019s only overseas post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictured: Jake Hilley (11) overlooking the mountains in Italy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dylan McAdoo Jake Hilley, a junior at Ponte Vedra High School, has gotten to see what two different lifestyles are like. Jake lived in Italy for three years and moved back to the U.S. right before his freshman year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[439,437,138,438],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DMcAdoo.Life_.In_.Italy_.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n