For anyone who has ever stepped foot in Italy, you know that it’s the most amazing country filled with the best food and enough wine to keep you drunk enough until you die, three times over. It’s the most romantic, beautiful country that is rich with history and art and seriously, the best food of your entire life. Studying abroad in Italy will completely ruin you when you come back to America… because once you’ve had Italian Nutella, nothing is quite the same.

1. You become used to eating full plates of pasta twice a day. The most delicious, fresh, handmade, cooked with love, pasta, and now even your grandma’s spaghetti tastes like sh*t.

2. Wine was only, like, $2 for an entire bottle.

3. And you drink wine with every meal. And now that you’re back home, not being 21 is even more heinous.

4. There is in fact a difference between European Nutella and our Nutella. Ours tastes worse… FYI.

5. You can no longer walk outside your door and find yourself at an extravagant art museum in five minutes.

6. You didn’t even mind going to church because even the churches are beautiful.

7. There was no short supply of beautiful, Italian men catcalling you.

8. It took awhile to get used to not eating 1000 calories at la pranza, the biggest meal of the day, in the middle of the day.

9. Gelato has made you think that normal ice cream tastes like nothing.

10. And you miss the light, beautiful flavors of fruity gelato like lemon and kiwi.

11. And the gelato that just tasted like frozen, spreadable Nutella.

12. At this very moment, you would probably sell your left kidney if it meant you could eat a delicious proscuitto sandwich on fresh baked bread with fresh cheese.

13. Actually, you would sell both your kidneys if it meant you could eat Italian bread for the rest of your life and not gain weight.

14. Speaking of which, studying abroad in Italy kind of your ruined your aspirations of having a hot body. You’re not mad about it though.

15. You miss staying out until 5 a.m.

16. And drinking all of the limoncello.

17. You almost miss the worst hangovers of your life caused by $2 wine.

18. You miss seeing all the little motorcletas and vespas around city streets.

19. How could you even compare the beautiful, colorful city streets that look absolutely nothing like the dull gray ones of America?!

20. You no longer flinch when you see PDA because in Italy, people were practically making babies on the side of the road.

21. You still think about your host mom every day… mostly the food she made for you.

22. The friends you made abroad describe a whole new level of friendship.

23. You miss being able to study famous art up close and feel like a super cultured genius every weekend.

24. You miss the fresh tomatoes that tasted like God himself had planted them and then watered them with special tomato growing water.

25. Pizza is no longer considered just a snack.

26. You miss pizza with Nutella on it, because, well… NUTELLA.

27. You miss walking down the street and seeing a 600-year-old fountain, an artist painting, and clothes drying out on the line fifty feet above you.

28. Even the craziest Uber driver seems tame compared to any Italian cab driver.

29. You can have gourmet pizza at 4 a.m. when you’re leaving the bars and it tastes like heaven has just relocated to your mouth.

30. You miss trying to speak Italian… because Italian is really spoken with your heart and your hands.

31. You could take a picture from anywhere in the city and it would be Instagrammable. Now your IG feed seems boring.

32. You could be on a bus or a train and be in the crystal clear waters of Napoli or Capri within hours.

33. Truth be told even a fresh glass of Coca-Cola tastes better in Italy.

34. You liked how there weren’t really any full-length mirrors around to assess how much pasta was destroying your figure.

35. You miss the Italian sunsets over the rolling hillsides.

36. And even though you’re happy to be back in the good ole’ US of A, you left a huge part of your heart (and your stomach) in Italia.