Reading Rome, Writing Rome:
Creative Writing Workshop in Italy 2008
May 22-June 14, 2008
Air Travel & Passports
The departure date from North America is Thursday, May 22, for arrival in Rome (Fiumicino airport) early in the morning on Friday, May 23.
Students are required to book group fare air tickets unless they receive permission from Professor Vaughn to make other arrangements (for example, booking tickets using Frequent Flyer miles, or booking another itinerary—although Baker Travel may be able to book the alternative itinerary, too). Students who receive permission to book another itinerary must arrive in Rome (Fiumicino airport) on the morning of Friday, May 23.
Students arriving on the group flight will be met at Fiumicino airport in Rome and escorted to Palazzo Lazzaroni, the Cornell teaching facility, where they will check in, present their passports, sign apartment agreements, and receive their apartment keys. Then they will be escorted to their apartments, where they will move in and make their own arrangements for room allocations.
Group-rate round-trip airline tickets are available from Baker Travel in Ithaca. While Baker Travel has no affiliation with Cornell, it has booked tickets for other Cornell travel programs, including the Cornell-in-Rome program administered by the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning during the fall and spring semesters. Students should contact Baker Travel (607.273.7557 or travprof@bakertravel.net) to reserve a seat and to inquire about connections to Rome from the point of origin of their trip (typically, students leave for Rome from their home cities or from Ithaca).
Students who have provisionally been accepted to the program (after contacting Professor Vaughn) should begin the air ticket booking process immediately. Begin by visiting the Baker Travel Web site.
The group-rate tickets available from Baker Travel agency will be released only to students who are enrolling in the "Creative Writing Workshop in Rome, 2008" program. Deposit deadline information is available on the site, but presently the deposit of $100 is fully refundable until February 22, 2008. (Financial aid students should write to one of the two professors to request that other arrangements be made for their air fare deposits, so that they do not have to front cash before their aid arrives.)
Passports
Students should check to see that their passports are good through June, 2008, or else apply for passports as soon as possible. Cornell students who are American citizens may secure forms and apply for passports at the Tompkins County Courthouse on South Tioga Street in Ithaca. For more information, visit the U.S. government passport Web site.
Note that if you are applying for financial aid, you may include the cost of your passport in your itemized expenses when making application for aid.
Visas
At this time students traveling with American passports will not need visas for this program.
However, students who are not American citizens may need to apply to the Italian Consulate in New York City for a visa to enter Italy. Please identify your citizenship when contacting program faculty to discuss enrollment, so that you may receive information about the requirements for entering Italy as a student.